[TenTec] Orion Brand Name

[Ron Notarius WN3VAW]

The first time Nextel tries to defend it's alleged trademark on PTT, don't
be surprised if the defense pulls a 1940's era ARRL Handbook or 1950's Heath
or Hallicrafter's manual or equivalent out to show that it's too generic a
term to be a TM.

If I'm not mistaken, the Nextel TM is only for use on cellular phones
though, so they would only be going after others in the industry.  Totally
ridiculous, but so what else is gnu?

73, ron wn3vaw

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Pittsburgh Pirate's Randall Simon?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Kamp, KW0D" <kw0d at netexpress.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion Brand Name


How about Motorola/Nextel's newly-trademarked term "Push-To-Talk", and it's
subservient trademark "PTT"??

DK  :-[

At 12:22 PM 07/16/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>"Orion" consumer electronics is a *brand name*.
>>
>>"Ten-Tec" is a *brand name*.
>>
>>Ten-Tec's "Orion" is a *model* name.
>>
>>I don't see any confusion.
>
>Apparently some confusion did and does exists.  Just as Motorola is a brand
>name and their "Triton" was a model name conflicted with the Ten-Tec model
>Triton. If A = C, and B = C, then A = B.
>
>73, de wd4air
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