Haha, poor Microsoft

I think it is kind of sad that people are so picky about others stealing their names. Rights to names haven''t helped anyone really, except to earn some money for the people that have no shame about suing people for something that would never have hurt them.

Null and Void

ROFLMAO

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LOL!!!!

hmm. That''s pretty gay.

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Anonymous : oh you got that "Legal and Ethical issues of Computing" course as well ? Pretty enlighting isn''t it

As for Micro$oft, LMAO If they decided to stopped using dumb as f*ck names, maybe they wouldn''t have this kind of problems ... I mean, "Windows", "Word", "Write", "Draw" ... when will they come up with "MS Fart Millenium edition" ???

LMAO

I agree with anon (Martin). Names are incredibly important, they really define the product. This lawsuit is far from frivolous. I can''t open up a restruant and name it McDonalds. McDonalds name really defines their services and products and my new restruant can cause confusion and ruin their name. This happened to a local (Minnesota) restruant that was forced to change their name becuase of a different chain in California with the same name.

Imagine if AMD started naming their chips ''pentium 4''(and this were legal).



Mike

About the AMD renaming their chips as "Pentium IV", I would dislike AMD more than I would Intel. First of all, that would just be strange =P, and secondly I don''t like any of Intel''s new chips that much.

But, anyway, I know you were just using it as an example, not a real situation.

Null and Void

Well, my point may have been missed, so let me clarify.

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About the AMD renaming their chips as "Pentium IV", I would dislike AMD more than I would Intel.

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This would be illegal, for the same reason that MS naming their console XBox may be found illegal. Intel has trademarked pentium.

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First of all, that would just be strange =P

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Actaully, I guess AMD/Intel was a good example for this discussion. Intel and AMD both named their chips 486 back in the day. This was legal becuase numbers can''t be trademarked. Intel named their chip the Pentium mainly becuase that can be trademarked and AMD coulnd''t name theirs pentium.

I''m not a lawyer and since all I know about this is that little blurb, it would be hard to make any concrete statement. But from that, it looks pretty clear cut toward XBox Technologies. They did have the name first, and the patent office already refused the trademark to MS.


Mike