Doug Yowza
>I don't remember if Intel actually filed suit to protect "486", for
>example, but they would have had to fight standard industry practice of
>using similar part numbers to indicate similar functionality. Something
>like "pentium" is much easier to protect, but you could probably open a
>Pentium Shoe Store and be on perfectly good legal ground.
I seem to remember a company called Gentium being forced by Intel to change
their name during 1995 as it sounded to similar to their own processor.
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Gareth Knight
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Received on Tue Dec 29 1998 - 17:17:02 GMT