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Subject:Re: PC as a trademark From:Barb Philbrick <caslonsvcs -at- IBM -dot- NET> Date:Thu, 10 Jul 1997 15:00:25 GMT
May I ask for your source? It seems unlikely that anyone could
trademark PC by itself.
BTW, Allen-Bradley has been using PLC, Programmable Logic Controller,
instead of PC, for at least five years.
The international trademark list on the Internet didn't list PC or PLC
as a trademark.
Barb
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997 08:12:42 -0400, you wrote:
>PC is trademarked by Allen-Bradley and is an acronym for Programmable
>Controller used in the industrial controls market.
>
>-Chuck
Barbara Philbrick, Caslon Services Inc.
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