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Trademarks and their limits

Trademarks and their limits

Posted Feb 6, 2013 9:41 UTC (Wed) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)
In reply to: Trademarks and their limits by jezuch
Parent article: Trademarks and their limits

> the court said that confusion of large computing machinery with household appliance is unlikely

I still remember the VAX-750 with those large disk drives (they must have held hundreds of megabytes!) and the day some joker placed a box of "Drive" brand laundry detergent on one of them. I'd say that from a distance it was easy to confuse an RP06 disk drive with a washing machine. Maybe not a vacuum cleaner, but certainly a house-hold appliance.


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