Re: Commentry on A call for a vote on the Rating System.

[Christian Reiniger <creinig@mayn.de>]

On Saturday 15 September 2001 21:56, Steve Baker wrote:

> > Have you checked whether these will violate ESRB's trademarks? I
> > expect it could be argued that any rating system which uses the same
> > letters as the ESRB system could be sued for trademark infringment:
> > trademarks are there to identify a mark with an entitity, by using
> > the same letters as ESRB they could probably argue that we were
> > trying to use their rating system in violation of their trademarks.
>
> That's possible - in which case (as I proposed) we'd change whatever is
> necessary to make it legal.  We just need to open a thesaurus and come
> up with some other letters.
>
> Personally, I doubt you could trademark that...but you are right - we
> should check.

Little note on that: The german telecom has trademarked the color magenta 
(see http://www.telekom.de) and AFAIK the letter "T". They're already 
suing people for the color, dunno about the letter.
I don't think they'll succeed, but still.

Well, I guess I just proved the opposite of what I wanted - nowadays you 
leave yourself open to be sued no matter what you do :(

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Christian Reiniger
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- Adolf Hitler

Note: This quote is not meant to be offensive, it is meant to make
people think, to let them learn from history (which especially
includes learning from the unpleasant facts). I'm sure that discussing
this quote in school would decrease the number of "new" nazis appearing
everywhere, if only by a little bit. That's why I will not remove it.