Michael Sevakis said: >I wasn't speaking of the World Wrestling Federation :) but re: Rockbox. As I >understand the same names can be used if not to indicate the same thing, at >least in the US. Dumb example: Foo Meat Packing, Inc. and Foo Manufacturing, >Inc. aren't nescessarily in conflict.
>> Michael Sevakis said: >> >>About a couple weeks ago after Rockbox appeared in one the online mags > >>(pc-mag?) I suspected that this would start happening if rb "mattered >too >> >>much". Now it's for real! >> >> >>Has this sort of thing occurred before? >> >> See WWF (renaming of, copyright infringement)... >> >> Looks like the only outfit with any prior claim would be "The Rock Box", a >> British chain of music stores (since 1987). They've had an online presence >> as "rockbox.co.uk" for as long as I've known... >> Yah, that's actually what I meant - you can't get much different than World Wrestling Federation and World Wildlife Fund, but there you go - World Wildlife Fund successfully sued the "other WWF" and now they are WWE... I guess what I was getting at is you never know till you get the C&D letter, then you do what makes sense :-). I don't think Rockbox is particularly in trouble - it's well known, and any action would have occured by now, I'd think. --technogeek
