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Re: High praise for Designer Set #4100
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Wed, 11 Jun 2003 21:00:45 GMT
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Purple Dave wrote:
> themes should get dropped in favor of which other themes. It should be about
> which themes will be interesting enough to pull kids away from the PS2 and get
I just did a little fun investigation. As an IBMer, I first think of PS2
as a computer (technically PS/2). So I did some trademark research.
Here's Sony's trademark for PS2 (I'm not 100% sure this link will work
for you):
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=ghmvpm.4.2
And here's IBM's trademark for PS/2:
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=ghmvpm.5.1
Notice that IBM's trademark is ONLY for COMPUTERS where Sony's is for a
whole bunch of things, except COMPUTERS. I suspect Sony would have liked
to get it for COMPUTERS but obviously should not be able to (too close
to IBMs). It's interesting to see how grabby each company is/was for
their trademark. IBM got a very limited trademark (and thus left itself
open to confusion with Sony's PS2 because they were able to trademark it
for some very similar uses, and in fact, the Sony PS2 itself is
certainly a computer).
Frank
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