Re: RFC: pentium optimized debian
I wrote:
> You can refer specifically to the Intel Pentium cpu without any legal
> concern at all (Intel is also a trademark, BTW). The *only* thing Intel's
> trademark on Pentium permits them to do is to forbid you to label cpu's
> that you are *selling* 'Pentium'.
Raul Miller writes:
> You're making this up.
No, I'm summarizing this:
> 15 USC Section 1114:
> (1) Any person who shall, without the consent of the registrant--
> ...
> (b) reproduce, counterfeit, copy, or colorably imitate a registered
> mark and apply such reproduction, counterfeit, copy, or colorable
> imitation to labels, signs, prints, packages, wrappers, receptacles
> or advertisements intended to be used in commerce upon or in
> connection with the sale, offering for sale, distribution, or
> advertising of goods or services on or in connection with which
> such use is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to
> deceive, shall be liable in a civil action by the registrant for
> the remedies hereinafter provided.
Raul Miller writes:
> You want to guarantee that people involved in debian are not going to be
> liable for offering services in connection with use of cpus in a fashion
> which is likely to cause confusion about what a pentium is?
The notion that the proposed use of the word 'pentium' could cause anyone
to become so confused as to purchase a non-Intel product under the
misapprehension that it is a genuine Intel Pentium is ludicrous.
--
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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