What about an ad which would say "For a restful night's sleep, get an IBM iSeries ." Meaning that companies can depend on an iSeries to run reliably at all times' vice a Wintel solution. OK , not likely. On Sep 3, 2012 12:21 PM, "Charles Mills" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Two identical tradenames do not necessarily infringe on each other. The > test > is the likelihood of customer confusion. Would a mattress buyer be likely > to > think IBM was behind a Serta iSeries? Would a computer buyer impute Serta's > reputation to an IBM iSeries? > > The question has gotten tougher in recent years. Fifty years ago you > probably could have called a clothing line Coke or MacDonald's, but now > every company wants their brand known in every line of business. > > Charles > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of zMan > Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 6:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: iSeries > > Does IBM know about this: > http://www.goodbed.com/mattress-line/serta-iseries/ > > Surely iSeries was trademarked?! Of course, Monster Cable has/had a > "zseries" at the same time that IBM did. They owned the domain zseries.com > , > although they never used it (it seems to be owned but not in use by a > squatter now). > -- > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
