On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Kevin Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
Yes. So we need to get the name changed on that activity. Any new name suggestions? -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
