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VanguardLH wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Nonsense.  "SLOPHP" would make no difference (as it is a variant of
>> "phpfoo", and you can use "PHP" in the product's _name_ if you have
>> requested and gotten written permission.
> 
> SLOPHP wasn't SLO-PHP.  It was meant to represent SLOP-HP, and HP is for
> Hewlett's Packard, not PHP.

ACK, see also my correction 30 minutes earlier.

> No one can prevent you legally from using a series of characters in your
> product name simply because a substring may match on your product name. 

AFAIK, that is not entirely correct.  For example, back in 1995, an 
agreement was required so that Netscape Communications Corporation could use 
Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s Java trademark in their JavaScript (formerly, 
LiveScript).  So suppose we would extend your example to read "Sloppy HP", 
which could be (mis)understood to be derogatory, it is entirely possible 
that Hewlett-Packard Company could sue and win.

> WhimsWorder would be a legal product name despite having msword as a
> substring.

ISTM the letter case would make all the difference, but I'll leave that for 
the lawyers to decide (IANAL).


PointedEars
-- 
var bugRiddenCrashPronePieceOfJunk = (
    navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE 5') != -1
    && navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mac') != -1
)  // Plone, register_function.js:16

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