RE: what's in a name

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

Actually, I misspoke.  We used a Service Mark precisely because it was
feared that someone else had a trademark on the term (Ultra SCSI).
Essentially using SM allows you a way to avoid any infringement on a TM of
the same name (the distinction between good and service often being castable
in the eye of the beholder).

Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Bradley [mailto:markb@indstorage.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 10:51 AM
To: Jim McGrath; julian_satran@il.ibm.com; ips@ece.cmu.edu
Subject: RE: what's in a name


This is incorrect information.  There is no difference between SM and TM
except that one applies to a service and the other to a product.
  --  markb

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu [mailto:owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu]On Behalf Of
> Jim McGrath
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 9:05 PM
> To: 'julian_satran@il.ibm.com'; ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Subject: RE: what's in a name
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> 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
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> 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
>