Trademarked spam

[Patterson S.R.]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Phillips [mailto:nwp at LEMON-COMPUTING.COM] 
> Sent: 14 October 2002 19:45
>
> I seem to recall that trademarks are linked to the area of business in
> which they are registered, and that would therefore be no 
> problem using the word "SPAM" so long as there was no chance of
> confusion with the "real" one. Remember Apple music taking Apple
computer to 
> court about this a while ago?

I quite agree with you, and I'm pretty sure that the SPAM {tm!} people
wouldn't want to sue us all - but then I also think that if they
invented the name and trademarked the name then it's only good manners
to comply with their guidelines on the use of the name :)

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Steven Patterson MSci OCP.  Tel: +44 (0)2380 595810
Primary Information Services Support and Development
Information Systems Services, University of Southampton, UK.
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