Subject: Re: Sparc lawyers prove more stupid than suns (fwd)
To: Jason E. Gorden <gorden@jegnixa.missouri.edu>
From: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@broder.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/17/1997 14:02:33
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Jason E. Gorden wrote:

> There are US cases like the Lexis <-> Lexus case that indicate that very
> similar spellings will not necessarily infringe.

This case stands because of the nature of business conducted by the two
parties.  They operate in separate markets, which subtracts from the
likelyhood of confusion.  This isn't quite so for NetBSD/sparc and
SPARClinux.

-J