<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Trademarks are very different from patents - trademarks can be almost anything, while patents are mostly inventions - methods/machines/etc.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">For example, Disney has the Sleeping Beauty's castle as a trademark, but it's not a patentable thing, while Goodyear had a patent on the chemical industrial process for vulcanizing rubber for strrong tires<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Pete Hardie<br>--------<br>Better Living Through Bitmaps</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Scott Castaline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skotchman@gmail.com" target="_blank">skotchman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Has anyone seen this?<br>
<a href="http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2013/02/python-trademark-at-risk-in-europe-we.html" target="_blank">http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2013/02/python-trademark-at-risk-in-europe-we.html</a><br>
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Are trademarks treated differently that patents? To me it just seems<br>
like a pile of crap that someone can come along and do that to someone<br>
who obviously was there first.<br>
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