[Am-info] Microsoft Releasing Records to Lindows

[Mitch Stone]

So, let me see if I understand this. If I ran a hamburger stand called 
Mitch's Hamburgers, and trademarked that name, I could legally prevent 
anyone named Mitch from selling hamburgers under their own name?

If that's the case, I'm going to change my name to John and start 
trademarking everything in sight.

On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 01:08 PM, T. Guilbert wrote:

> Nope:  own name never has been a defense in a trademark infringement
> case.  Even if your name were Mitch Microsoft, you would not be
> allowed to sell software you wrote as Microsoft software.
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   Mitch Stone
   mitch@accidentalexpert.com

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