On 7/29/10 7:56 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
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.
Bruno:
Thank you for the additional background ... especially the "long time
ago" qualification.
Paul