Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!ucbvax!ttidca.UUCP!troeger From: troeger@ttidca.UUCP (Jeff Troeger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100 Subject: Is ARC a valid trademark? Message-ID:Date: 20 Sep 88 18:21:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 12 In article <1682@qiclab.UUCP> leonard@qiclab.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes: >I seem to vaguely recall hearing somethiing to the effect that you cannot >trademark a "descriptive" term. (forgive the vagueness as it has been a >*long* time since I saw this) Being unfamiliar with the copyright/trademark issues, I don't know if this is useful, but DataPoint has a trademark (and has had it since the '70s) on the word ARC. As reprinted from a current Datapoint Manual "Attached Resource Computer" is a trademark of DATAPOINT Corporation. Registered in the US patent and Trademark office. "ARC" is a trademark of DATAPOINT Corp.