Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:19439 misc.legal:5873 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!psivax!quad1!ttidca!troeger From: troeger@ttidca.TTI.COM (Jeff Troeger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.legal Subject: Re: Is ARC a valid trademark? Message-ID: <3190@ttidca.TTI.COM> Date: 20 Sep 88 18:21:47 GMT References: <1682@qiclab.UUCP> Reply-To: troeger@ttidcb.tti.com (Jeff Troeger) Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica 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.