RE: Bake-off as trademark
Bernie Volz <Volz@ipworks.com> Mon, 06 November 2000 23:50 UTC
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From: Bernie Volz <Volz@ipworks.com>
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John is correct. You can do the searches yourself at http://www.uspto.gov. All of the "bake-off" trademarks found by the system are those relating to cooking and baked goods, not for software or hardware testing, etc. Some of these trademarks go back to 1965. But again they are not in the computer field and so it is not an issue. - Bernie Volz -----Original Message----- From: John Stracke [mailto:francis@ecal.com] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 4:06 PM To: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: Bake-off as trademark "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. -- /==============================================================\ |John Stracke | http://www.ecal.com |My opinions are my own.| |Chief Scientist |=============================================| |eCal Corp. |Please do not adjust your mind--reality is | |francis@ecal.com|malfunctioning. | \==============================================================/
- Re: Bake-off as trademark John Stracke
- Bake-off as trademark Henning G. Schulzrinne
- Re: Bake-off as trademark Steven M. Bellovin
- Re: Bake-off as trademark Tim Salo
- Re: Bake-off as trademark James Aldridge
- Re: Bake-off as trademark Bob Braden
- Re: Bake-off as trademark Randy Bush
- Re: Bake-off as trademark Anthony Atkielski
- Re: Bake-off as trademark Mike_Borella
- Re: Bake-off as trademark Herman Silbiger
- Re: Bake-off as trademark Ole J. Jacobsen
- Re: Bake-off as trademark Jeff Weisberg
- Re: Bake-off as trademark Bill Manning
- RE: Bake-off as trademark Rosen, Brian
- RE: Bake-off as trademark Rosen, Brian
- Re: Bake-off as trademark Scott Brim
- RE: Bake-off as trademark Bernie Volz
- Re: Bake-off as trademark Henning G. Schulzrinne
- Re: Bake-off as trademark Anthony Atkielski
- Re: Bake-off as trademark Anthony Atkielski
- Re: Bake-off as trademark Masataka Ohta
- Re: Bake-off as trademark Jim_Stephenson-Dunn
- RE: Bake-off as trademark Michael Francois
- Re: Bake-off as trademark hardie
- Re: Bake-off as trademark Keith Moore
- Re: Bake-off as trademark Marcus Leech
- Re: Bake-off as trademark John Stracke
- Re: Bake-off as trademark Paul Hoffman / IMC