Re: IBM's use of eServer brand challenged

["David Keck" <dkeck@xxxxxxx>]

It's not the size of the company that matters, but rather the strength of the argument.  If IBM sends you a plain text e-mail, how do you suppose they will type the brand in question?  The astronauts will not likely be bankrupted in court ... a law firm might take this one on a contingency basis.  There may be more to gain than the fair market value of their company, so why sell.  Dumb name or not, they are poised to receive a fortuitous windfall. 

... planet earth is Blue, and there's nothing I can do ... - David Bowie

-DaveK

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Chuck Lewis

To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com

Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 11:48 AM

Subject: Re: IBM's use of eServer brand challenged

When I saw that Technauts (WHAT a dumb name) had 60 people, I couldn't HELP but think IBM could bankrupt them in court - or just BUY the company <BG>.

Chuck

"Stone, Brad V (TC)" wrote:

I read that on Linuxnews.com.  Someone asked "Isn't <soinso> using eServers as a trademarked name already?"That's neat, though.  IBM will probably just throw 13mil at the company to hush up.  (Hey, it's only one years salary for the top dog.)Brad

-----Original Message-----
From: oludare [mailto:oludare@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 12:22 PM
To: AS/400 Midrange Usergroup
Subject: IBM's use of eServer brand challenged
 

"IBM's use of eServer brand challenged"
Just days after IBM announced it would rebrand its line of servers
under the new name eServer, a North Carolina-based maker of server appliances
says it plans on filing suit against the computer giant for using a
name it has been trying to trademark for two years.