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Re: Logotypes in certificates

Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com> Tue, 27 March 2001 10:13 UTC

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Dean Povey wrote:
> 
> I think you would concede however that
> while they might not do exhaustive checking, the trademark process provides
> some level of assurance as companies are quite vigilant about protecting
> their trademarks.

No. Although I agree that companies are very vigilant about
protecting their trademarks there are too many trade mark and logo
cases going to courts. IMHO this whole trademark stuff is even more
ambigous than natural names (like X.500 naming CN,L,OU,O,C) of
residential persons.

Ciao, Michael.

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