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From: greg@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Greg Bullough)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Is ARC a valid trademark?
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Date: 22 Sep 88 18:22:36 GMT
References: <1682@qiclab.UUCP> <3190@ttidca.TTI.COM> <10117@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: greg@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Greg Bullough)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale  CA
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In article <10117@eddie.MIT.EDU> ooblick@eddie.MIT.EDU (Mikki Barry) writes:
>In article <3190@ttidca.TTI.COM> troeger@ttidcb.tti.com (Jeff Troeger) writes:
>>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.
>
>If DATAPOINT has indeed been using this as a trademark since the 70's,
>I wonder why it hasn't bothered to register their trademark.  This leads
>me to believe that there have been challenges to their exclusive use of the
>letters, disallowing them to register it with the trademark office.
>
>If ARC has been in common use, I find it hard to believe they can have
>an exclusive right to use those letters in the same context.
>
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.

Greg