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Re: Trademarks

Subject: Re: Trademarks
From: Jan Henning <henning -at- r-l -dot- de>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 20:05:36 +0200

What if the product is only going to be used in-house, but has the same or similar name to a commercial application?

From a trademark point-of-view, ther should be no problem: If you use something in-house only, you do not trade it, hence no trademark issues.

However.... if the name of your in-house product becomes public knowledge, for example through a feature article on your company, your company could probably be sued by the trademark holder.

Anyway, why would you want to have something inhouse that has the same name as a commercial product with the same functionality? ("I'm going to send you an Excel spreadsheet." - "Uh - our Excel or Microsoft's?")

Regards
Jan Henning

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