On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 23:48:57 -0400,
Paul Allen Newell <pnewell(a)cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
If doing a "black-box" only job of "reverse engineering" requires one
to
load memory with a trademark, how does this fall into the realm of
acceptable?
There was a court case where a company was using a copyrighted phrase
for access control. A competitor won when they also used the same phrase
for access control purposes.
That was a long time ago and people seemed to feel that when a customer
bought something, they owned it. In today's environment that case might
have gone differently.