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Posted on 05-Mar-2000 09:36 GMT by Christian Kemp10 comments
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Teemu I. Yliselä writes: A couple of a bit unusual news items for you. :) First, according to amiga-news.de, Met@box have acquired rights to two TV's cartoon series. They are expecting to turn 48 million DM from them in the next 3 years. Are they changing for a more profitable business? :) Second, someone on the amiga.org message board pointed out this site: www.amigatel.com Trademark infringement or not?
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Posted by avallino on 04-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
About the AmigaTel stuff: their logo looks quite like Amiga's. If the US
trademark laws cover Canada too, it'll be a nice test for Fleecy and his gang:
if they really have the balls they'd send some lawyers after AmigaTel.
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Posted by Troels Ersking on 04-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
I wrote Bill as soon as I saw it and got this (very) short reply:
Thank you.
We have legal take a look at it.
Bill
So I guess they will find whether or not they will take legal action.
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Posted by Frederik on 04-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
Maybe those ppl, thought that the Amiga was long gone, but ofcourse it is not.
They must be a sad bunch of ppl, when they use the grand name Amiga like that.
I hope that Fleecy and Bill will tkae legal actions against them, and squash them..
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Posted by Raimund on 04-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
Just a short note on Met@box. They are not changing their focus,
building accelerator boards is nowadays only a small part of their
business. The main thing are settopboxes and contents for webTV. They
are one of the leading corps in respect to iTV in Germany. The are
traded because of this at the German stock market "Neuer Markt" not
because they intend to build G3 accelerators for Amiga (in fact, that
was one of the reasons one analyser recommended not to buy Met@abox
shares). At the moment there are quite a lot of rumors in stock market
boards, some believe, Met@box will be one of the best performing share
ever ("second EM.TV", a share with 22000% win since IPO) within more
or less no time.
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Posted by Adam Szymczak on 05-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Frederik):
Trademark infringement would result from a company using either the same or similar words, symbols and/or design that are registered trademarks. Technically, there is nothing stopping one company from using part of a companies name if the products or services each company promotes are vastly different, or if one company only registered there trademark on a limited number of products and services.
Amiga Corporation would have to successfully argue that Amiga Telephony Corporation is similar and would confuse people. Keep in mind that the word Amiga on its own cannot be copyrighted or trademarked - a unique design (logo) of the word Amiga can be trademarked.
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Posted by Mike Passmore on 05-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Adam Szymczak):
So what you are saying Adam, is that someone could start a business tomorrow called Microsoft Telephony Company and there is nothing old Bill could do about it.
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Posted by Ben Yoris on 05-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Mike Passmore):
No because there is an exception when the trademark is world famous.
This execpetion exists in french law and european law.
I suppose it also exists in US law.
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Posted by Casey R Williams on 05-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Mike Passmore):
Surely it would matter that one is a pre-existing word while the other is a fabricated name...
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Posted by Adam Szymczak on 06-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Mike Passmore):
I knew that someone would bring up a Microsoft-based question ;) As several people correctly noted, Microsoft is both a globally recognized word and a unique word. The word Microsoft is not found in a dictionary. Also, it is very likely that Microsoft has registered the word Microsoft for a very wide variety of products and services, since it is involved in a wide variety of products and services.
Upon further thought, this may not necessarily be a case of trademark infringement but rather of similar corporate names, for which there are regulations. I know that when Daimler-Benz and Chrysler Corporation merged, that DaimlerChrysler ran into problems in Canada using the corporate name of DaimlerChrysler Canada since there already existed a Daimler-Benz Canada (regardless of the fact that it was wholly owned by DaimlerChrysler). Daimler-Benz Canada had to be legally dissolved before the name DaimlerChrysler Canada was acceptable as a corporate name.
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Posted by Trizt on 06-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (Adam Szymczak):
when we have touched this M$-thing, how come can they release a software and name it the same as a software from another company and get away with it?
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