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Re: Bake-off as trademark

"Marcus Leech" <mleech@nortelnetworks.com> Tue, 07 November 2000 03:50 UTC

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"Henning G. Schulzrinne" wrote:
> 
> I've been approached regarding the use of the (claimed-to-be)
> trademarked term bake-off. It would be helpful if somebody can provide
> credible evidence that this term has been used within the technical
> community for many years. (In case you didn't know,
> http://www.bakeoff.com/ shows the non-technical use....)
> 
> Thank you.
It wouldn't matter if we'd been using the term since only last Wednesday.
  Most trademark systems that I'm aware of share a doctrine of separation
  of intended audience.  So the word "bake-off" in the technical
  "market" of the Internet community is entirely seperate from the
  "market" of Pillsbury pastry products.

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