On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 01:09, Tim McNamara <[email protected]> wrote:
> Compare "Breakout"[1] with "Break Out"[2] > I haven't checked the USPTO's database, but I'm fairly certain that Atari > would have registered it. And though IANAL, I recall from a previous exploration that names that are similar are found to be infringing, unless they are being applied to very different animals. For example, if I have a hardware store and name it McDonald's, I'm not competing with a company that sells fast food. I win: I'm not in violation. However, if I have a game that looks, tastes and smells like "Breakout" and bears the strikingly similar name "Break Out"... Bzzzt. I lose. -- Kevin Cole Sugar Labs DC Washington, DC _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
