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Does Commodore own the trademark for the Datasette name?
by timbit42 9y ago
Does Commodore own the trademark for the Datasette name?
- bazzert 9y agowell that brought on a surge of nostalgia.
- ifdefdebug 9y agolistening to the sound of your programs and data at a few hundred (dozens?) bytes per second :)
- mastax 9y agoExpired in 1993: http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=72389457&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=72389457&caseType=SERIAL_N...
- timbit42 9y agoThis was trademarked by Audio Devices in Stamford, CT, in 1971, which makes sense since the Commodore Datasette likely didn't exist until the Commodore PET was created in 1977. Commodore seemed to use both 'datasette' and 'datassette'. Perhaps Commodore registered the double-S spelling. Perhaps they were challenged by Audio Devices for using the 'datasette' spelling.