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From: ooblick@eddie.MIT.EDU (Mikki Barry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Is ARC a valid trademark?
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Date: 25 Sep 88 14:51:41 GMT
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Reply-To: ooblick@eddie.MIT.EDU (Mikki Barry)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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In article  greg@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Greg Bullough) writes:
>ARC is also the trade name for "Aircraft Radio Corporation," which is
>(or was, last I checked) a subsidiary of Cessna Aircraft. They've been
>around, I think, since at least WWII, since a lot of the military gear
>of that era bears the designator "ARC." Their contemorary equipment has
>not been renowned for its reliability.

A trade name does not necessarily mean a trademark.

Also, the same trademark can be used in different fields.  For example,
Cadillac the car and Cadillac cat food.  

Mikki Barry