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Fork?

Fork?

Posted Jun 15, 2006 19:04 UTC (Thu) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
In reply to: Fork? by k8to
Parent article: Ethereal becomes Wireshark

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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