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My understanding was that the internal Borg was fine because it wasn't publicly available, versus this which is.
by bigdubs 7y ago
My understanding was that the internal Borg was fine because it wasn't publicly available, versus this which is.
- slenk 7y agoThe word Borg itself I do not believe is trademarked. I didn't think you could trademark someone's last name? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Borg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Borg A search of borg in the patent office shows the name used a lot: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4806%3Avh5xwi.1.1&p_search=searchss&p_L=50&BackReference=&p_plural=yes&p_s_PARA1=&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA1%24LD&expr=PARA1+AND+PARA2&p_s_PARA2=borg&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA2%24COMB&p_op_ALL=AND&a_default=search&a_search=Submit+Query&a_search=Submit+Query http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4806%3Av...
- trothamel 7y agoWhy not? If you look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_(name) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_(name) , the surname 'Apple' is used quite a bit.
- ranDOMscripts 7y agoTell that to Uzi Nissan. https://nissan.com/Digest/The_Story.php https://nissan.com/Digest/The_Story.php
- slenk 7y agoWow...that sucks. If I ever bought anything Nissan Motor I would have to reconsider. I hate how easily corruptible trademark/copyright/patent rules are