brochure project -- draft idea revised

[Josef Lowder]

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Thanks for your further comments, Jon. 

While I certainly do appreciate and respect your thoughts on this 
matter, I just do not believe that there is any credence to the 
notion that Intel has exclusive ownership of every circular shape 
ever drawn or of every use of the word "inside" in every possible 
context.  Furthermore, the U.S. Patent office requires trademark 
applicants to *disclaim* the use of generic words such as "inside" 
except as used in the very specific context and implementations 
in any given design. 

Furthermore, any trademark holder must be able to *prove* that 
they are damaged in reputation or financially by the use of any 
sequence of words or graphical design which they may claim is 
an infringement on their trademark rights. 

In any case, I am not necessarily advocating the use of either 
of the particular graphic elements used in this draft brochure. 

If anyone has any better ideas and/or graphics to propose that 
would certainly be just fine with me.  All I was doing was 
offering a possible "draft idea" as the subject line stated. 

If anyone really had any serious concerns about the use of the 
example graphics, I wouldn't hesitate to just submit the design 
to Intel's (or anyone else's) legal department and ask for their 
response.  I seriously doubt that Intel (or anyone else) would 
have any desire to squelch something like this by claiming 
trademark infringement by the many hundreds of entities "out 
there" as indicated in the Google search results that I previously 
cited. 

Joe

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On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 10:28:17 -0700, Jon M. Hanson wrote
> It's not just the "Linux Inside," it's the circular logo and using 
> the same graphics as Intel used for the Pentium 4 chips. I work for 
> Intel and I know we've gone after people before for this. Personally,
>  I could care less and I'm not going to report it to the legal 
> department because I'm not one of those kinds of people. Intel 
> employs a lot of people here in the valley and chances are one of 
> them might see the brochure (if this ends up being its final form) 
> and most of them are "those kinds of people." We are constantly 
> pounded on here to protect Intel's trademarks, IP, and assets. Do 
> you really want to risk yourself and the club's exposure to a lawsuit?