Re: Trademark question

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Trademarks are not issued by courts.  The courts, however,
do have the final say on whether trademarks issued by the
govt are valid.  The MS trademark on "Windows" is not
fully settled in law at this time.

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1076428297954

MS eventually settled the case and paid Lindows 
$24,000,000 for its name (the company is now called
Linspire) to avoid having the courts issue their final
ruling on Lindows' claim that "windows" was a generic 
term in the software industry prior to the introduction 
of MS Windows.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janice Gelb" <janice -dot- gelb -at- sun -dot- com>

> And yet, somehow they managed to bamboozle the
> court into granting them a trademark for "Windows"

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