How interesting

Dave Page grimoire at sparky.ox.compsoc.net
Fri Aug 25 13:41:11 UTC 2006


On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 01:32:26PM +0000, diddler4u at hotmail.com wrote:

> A search in Google for TOR shows that Tor is a registered trademark. Does 
> that mean the use of Tor can be forced to change to something else? Which 
> came first, the Tor project, or the registered trademark?

Trademarks are only valid within a particular field of endeavour. Since
tor.com is a book publisher, not a provider of anonymity software, there
should be no problem.

This is why Apple Record and Apple Computers both traded happily until
Apple Computers started providing music...

Dave
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