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[Iain Stevenson]

.. but, the company name is Microsoft and the product name is Windows (in 
common use in plain English).  So the correct analogy would be to 4ait 
selling a product called "Lintels" and a competitor selling something 
called "Lentils".  Maybe 4ait could sue Holland & Barrett?

It all seems terribly petty to me and typical of a company with too many 
lawyers and deep pockets.

  Iain



--On Wednesday, February 18, 2004 11:19 am +0000 Geoff Teale 
<gteale at cmedltd.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 05:39 -0500, Jon Fautley wrote:
>> It just shows the idiocy of some countries legal systems...
>>
>> Just my 2p...
>
> Well Mr. Fautley, how exactly is this idiotic?
>
> If I were to set up an I.T. company in the Horsham area with the name
> 4ait or better still free-a-i-t do you not feel that it might cause
> confusion, and if I were particularly shoddy do you not feel it would
> reflect badly on 3ait if people confused the names?
> --
> Geoff Teale
> Cmed Technology <gteale at cmedltd.com>
> Free Software Foundation <tealeg at members.fsf.org>
>
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