How interesting

[Marco A. Calamari]

On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 13:41 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 01:32:26PM +0000, diddler4u at hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> > A search in Google for TOR shows that Tor is a registered trademark. Does 
> > that mean the use of Tor can be forced to change to something else? Which 
> > came first, the Tor project, or the registered trademark?
> 
> Trademarks are only valid within a particular field of endeavour. Since
> tor.com is a book publisher, not a provider of anonymity software, there
> should be no problem.
> 
> This is why Apple Record and Apple Computers both traded happily until
> Apple Computers started providing music...

I don't think happily...

They were in legal fight for decades ....
 ... it is famous legal match.

"Prior art" or "different domain" are thing
 that must be demonstrated by the defender
 during a legal fight, and sentenced by a judge.

JM2C      Marco

> 
> Dave
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