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I don't see Microsoft-* in this ancient wordI don't see Microsoft-* in this ancient wordPosted May 14, 2004 7:03 UTC (Fri) by jwharmanny (guest, #971)In reply to: I don't see Microsoft-* in this ancient word by neoprene Parent article: MS drags Linspire back to court (Register)
You probably didn't know that English is not the native tongue in the Netherlands. Using an English dictionary to prove that "windows" is a normal word in a Dutch court case doesn't make much sense to me.
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I don't see Microsoft-* in this ancient word Posted May 14, 2004 14:25 UTC (Fri) by aotheoverlord (guest, #3993) [Link] Ok, so what _do_ the Dutch call "any of the areas into which a computer display may be divided and on which distinctly different types of information are displayed" ?
I don't see Microsoft-* in this ancient word Posted May 14, 2004 18:33 UTC (Fri) by dokhebi (guest, #14023) [Link] If Microsoft gets away with a trademark of an English word in a non-English speaking nation. What is there to stop other companies from getting trademarks of words from languages in countries where that language is not the native language.For example: Tokyo Pop (an US based company that translates Japanese comics, called "manga," for the US and Canada) trademarks the word "manga" in the US so all of the other publishers (Viz, Dark Horse, etc.) now have to pay royalties to them or stop using the word "manga" in their advertisements, and the book stores have to create new name plates for the section headers, etc. It becomes chaos for the market place world wide. And once again, only the lawyers win in the long run. Maybe Shakespeare was right...
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