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Re: death of Dr. James Cooke Brown, inventor of Loglan

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, February 17, 2000, 14:52
Nik Taylor wrote:

> Why was it ruled not to be a valid trademark?
Trademarks can't be just descriptions: you wouldn't get far with a line of "Blue Jeans" (tm) blue jeans, whereas "Blue Jeans" would be a perfectly good trademark for CD's, for example. "Loglan" was held to be a mere abbreviation for "logical language", a purely descriptive term, and therefore not trademarkable by anybody. We actually found a dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations that listed it. There is also an unrelated programming language called Loglan '82. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)