Re: PC as trademark

[MacGyver <mlee -at- FDLDOTNET -dot- COM>]

Mark L. Levinson wrote:
>
> I've never heard of it being trademarked, and I've been
> using it for years.
>
>       ** I believe that IBM did have the expression "PC"
>          trademarked at one point.  That was during
>          their "Little Tramp" days.  It was stupid of the
>          authorities to allow the trademark, since the
>          term was already in use throughout the industry
>          to mean "Personal Computer," but back then the
>          industry was small and the authorities were
>          computer-illiterate.
>
>          I don't believe I've seen IBM claiming "PC" as
>          a trademark recently.
>
> --


IBM had the "pc jr" name trademarked back them, which was the actual
name of that particular computer.

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