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  • Intel forces yoga group to fight for its name!

    Found this Gem on /. (slashdot)


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    SFGate

    Stephens, founder of the Yoga Inside Foundation in Venice (Los Angeles County), has been duking it out with Santa Clara's Intel Corp. for more than a year over whether his do-gooding nonprofit violates the chipmaker's "Intel Inside" trademark.
    He started with Yoga sessions for those on the "inside" (prison, etc) hence the name.....

    What irritates me is that Intel thinks that if they trademarks "Intel inside" then they have automagicaly trademarked everyting thats ends with "........Inside"
    Last edited by Technoid; 30 March 2002, 02:33.
    If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

    Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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    I don't really know if it's all intel's fault. America has this stupid "Trademark Dilution Act" where companies "have" to go after people that even look like they might be weakening the trademark.

    Example 1: Intel goes after AMD after they start an "AMD Inside" campaign. Intel wins.

    Example 2: Intel leaves "Yoga Inside" alone. AMD starts "AMD Inside," but because Intel didn't go after the "Yoga" people, the trademark is diluted, so AMD might get to keep "AMD Inside."

    It's all absurd.
    Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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    • #3
      If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

      Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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      • #4
        <FONT SIZE=4>...Got DARTH INSIDE!!!...YOU WILL!!!<SUP>tm</SUP> ...
        <FONT SIZE=1><SUP>tm</SUP> courtesy of ALBPM aka Darth Mahl [MU]<FONT SIZE=2>
        "Never interfere with the enemy when he is in the process of destroying himself"

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        • #5
          I agree with Wombat. The American legal system is like a buggy bunch of bloated software.

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