Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!mailrus!uflorida!haven!ncifcrf!nlm-mcs!adm!smoke!w8sdz From: w8sdz@smoke.ARPA (Keith B. Petersen ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: SEA vs. PKware documents Summary: Trademark likely to be invalidated Keywords: SEA, PKware, legal, trademark, Datapoint Corporation Message-ID: <8574@smoke.ARPA> Date: 24 Sep 88 07:45:14 GMT References: <1689@qiclab.UUCP> Reply-To: w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith Petersen) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 23 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. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ This can be confirmed at any Datapoint Corporation sales office in most major cities. Datapoint has been notified and will no doubt be dealing with SEA in due course. --Keith Petersen Arpa: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz -- --Keith Petersen Maintainer of the CP/M and MSDOS archives at SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL [26.0.0.74] Arpa: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz