RE: what's in a name

[Jim McGrath <Jim.McGrath@quantum.com>]

You file iSCSI as a Service mark (SM).  That essentially reserves the name
so no one else can trademark it, but allows other to use it (if you TM the
name then you have to defend it if others use it or you lose the TM - the
Xerox problem).

I recollect that we did this with Ultra SCSI and it worked ok.

Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: julian_satran@il.ibm.com [mailto:julian_satran@il.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 7:31 AM
To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
Subject: what's in a name




Yaron Klein just pointed out to me tha Virtual Private SAN and VPS are TM
of
Pathlight (www.pathlight.com) and so are SAN Gateway and SAN router.

Costa earlier pointed out that iSCSI is the name of a cable for iMAC (but
not a trademark
as far as I can tell).

Can somebody tell us how to protect at least iSCSI from TM claims?

Can the Internet Society do it (before it is too late)?

Julo