Citeren "jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > I've noticed other manufacturers using names in addition to numbers in the
> > US market. Why they can't just use the model number I'll never know. And
> > yes, Evolt is ugly. But then not a lot more than C*n*n's Digital Rebel.
> > Hum... silliness.
> >
>
> As intel said you can't protect a number e.g. 486 and stop someone else
> using it but you can protect a name like pentium....
> James
>
Sure?
I can't imagine Olympus was just being just courteous to a wel-known German RF
manufacturer when it
renamed the M System to OM System. There must have been some legal pressure
behind that.
I know of a similar situation in the automobile history: Porsche intended to
announce a sportscar with the
name '901', but that naming schema (number-zero-number) had been claimed by
French manufacturer Peugeot.
Hence the car was named '911' .
Regards,
Bart
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