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Re: Bake-off as trademark

John Stracke <francis@ecal.com> Mon, 06 November 2000 21:10 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.

Well, there's RFC-1025, published in 1987; is 13 years enough? Also, it
refers to bakeoffs held as early as 1979, though it could be that they
were called something else at the time.

In any case, don't trademarks apply only within a single domain? There
isn't much overlap between the markets for baked goods and network
protocols.

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