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Posted Jun 15, 2006 8:48 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)
In reply to: Fork? by kirkengaard
Parent article: Ethereal becomes Wireshark

It's also possible that they believe the mark has value in application to
other things. Or do trademarks not work that way?


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Posted Jun 15, 2006 19:04 UTC (Thu) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

Good info on trademarks at Chilling Effects. If the company wanted to do a "line extension" of the Ethereal mark to other network software, it would probably hold up, but if they wanted to use it for RSS readers or a chain of Meat on a Stick restaurants, they'd have to apply again.

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