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According to USPTO trademark search, WordStar trademark is dead (cancelled on August 14, 1995). This is US-only, of course.
by dchest 8y ago
According to USPTO trademark search, WordStar trademark is dead (cancelled on August 14, 1995). This is US-only, of course.
- Jaruzel 8y agoThe trademark maybe dead but the product is not abandoned, nor has it been released into the public domain. The current owners are Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houghton_Mifflin_Harcourt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houghton_Mifflin_Harcourt I'm sure if they felt like it they could assert their IP rights over any clones or similarly named products.
- dsr_ 8y agoWhat IP rights? The trademark is dead. That's naming. Patents? Seems unlikely. That leaves copyright. It seems unlikely that anyone working on a Wordstar clone is silly enough to have even glanced at the original source, so that's not it. Look-and-feel? Dead issues. And there's no API to copy, not that I believe an API is copyrightable as it is a functional spec. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit can bite me.