James King wrote
> >
> > * On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:12:07AM -0400, Chuck Norcutt said:
> >> I thought it was pretty rEVOLTing myself because that's the word that is
> >> invoked in my mind when I see EVOLT. Yuck!
> >
> > 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
I'm not so sure Intel / James are correct about protecting a number. There
was a huge scrap between Porsche and Peugeot over their numbers; I forget
the exact numbers, but it was in the era when the Porsche 911 and the
Peugeot 404 were alive and well.
Brian
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