"Beowulf" trademarked ???

[Marc Campbell]

...however, someone could trademark "Beowulf Cluster" ...

--Marc

Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> 
> There is considerable precident established in trademark rulings about
> so-called generic marks, ie marks that are sufficiently long established
> and in wide-use by a number of individuals cannot be "aquired" by one
> individual.
> 
> The legendary exploits of a 6th century danish hero composed orally in the
> 700's and commiteed to paper in about AD 1000 (Cotton Vitellius A XV) and
> reprinted continously since 1815 should be immune to misguided attempts to
> trademark it.
> 
> joelja
> 
> On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Lechner, David wrote:
> 
> > Can someone say who has trademarked the name of a saga/novel/poem
> > transcribed by monks in the 16th century and predating that in oral
> > tradition by several centuries more?
> > What are the "simple criteria", and is there a web-site somewhere on this?
> > I checked  www.beowulf.org and didn't see this there -
> > R/ Dave Lechner
> >
> > > ----------
> > > From:       Greg Lindahl[SMTP:lindahl@cs.virginia.edu]
> > > Sent:       Tuesday, June 15, 1999 6:35 PM
> > > To:         ronelson@vt.edu
> > > Cc:         beowulf@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov
> > > Subject:    Re: CNET -- How to build a supercomputer at home
> > >
> > > > > Many people report to have been frustated with this CD, which
> > > > > in the end is counterproductive as well for Linux as for Beowulf.
> > > >
> > > > Does RH own the rights to the name, or can someone else pick up the
> > > slack and
> > > > make an Extreme linux 2.2.10 version, or at least a *different* more
> > > recent
> > > > version.
> > >
> > > The CD was called Extreme.Linux (note the dot)
> > >
> > > "Extreme Linux" is a trademark owned by Linux International, and can
> > > be used by anyone who meets a few simple criteria. The same is true
> > > for "Beowulf" (different owner, but again a few simple criteria).
> > >
> > > Don Becker is releasing a new Extreme.Linux CD at some point. But
> > > anyone else can release an "Extreme Linux" CD.
> > >
> > > -- g
> > >
> >
> 
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