Re: Re: Best Name for Milkbone

Unless US Trademark law is totally different from European trademark law, you trademark a word for a particular market. E.g. you use the trademark "Mercury" for outboard motors; others may use "Mercury" for something entirely unrelated.

Of course, if you are a "deep pocket" company, you register all your trademarks for lots of things so you corner not only the market, but half of the economy!

Another thing you should think of: check if the word you choose has some meaning in another language. It might be perfect in English, but people in Mongolia might laugh their socks off (or worse get really offended)!

CountZero

"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

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Re: Re: Re: Best Name for Milkbone by liz (Monsignor) on Aug 24, 2003 at 19:06 UTC
...check if the word you choose has some meaning in another language... A check on Google should be helpful in that respect ;-) Anecdote Alert: In the beginning of the 80ies, there used to be a (Japanese) mini-computer manufacturer called "Facomp". They never really took off in the States, because nobody really knew how to pronounce the name: "Fake 'em"? "F*ck 'em" ?. Can't even find them on Google anymore. I guess then they don't exist anymore (at least not under that name ;-) Liz	[reply]
Re: Best Name for Milkbone by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Aug 25, 2003 at 08:16 UTC
Unless US Trademark law is totally different from European trademark law, you trademark a word for a particular market. E.g. you use the trademark "Mercury" for outboard motors; others may use "Mercury" for something entirely unrelated. Yes, but you might find yourself in a position where you have to prove that confusion is unlikely. Abigail	[reply]
Re^3: Best Name for Milkbone by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Aug 25, 2003 at 23:52 UTC
The Enron folks were going to name their company Enteron. Pity they managed to find out in the very last second that it means "bowel" in Greek... `:)` Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re: Re^3: Best Name for Milkbone by CountZero (Bishop) on Aug 26, 2003 at 05:59 UTC
Pity, notwithstanding the name-change, sht came out anyhow. CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler."* - Conway's Law	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Best Name for Milkbone by batkins (Chaplain) on Aug 24, 2003 at 19:07 UTC
bite the wax tadpole (google for it) it says she can do math, but will she recognize 8 / 0? We can only hope they've put in those safeguards. Worst case scenario: She succeeds in dividing by zero, and suddenly little Tiphany-Amber's bedroom becomes the center of a howling vortex of nonspace, frying the neighborhood with sparkling discharges of zero-point energy. - slashdot	[reply]