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On Sat 23 January 2010 4:10:25 am Mauricio Piacentini wrote:
> Should we preemptively rename Plasma as well?

The problem is that Hasbro holds copyright to the name Battleship with rega=
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to "computer game programs and accessories for use therewith"[1]. Which I=20
would think is a -lot- more close of a risk than simply sharing a name with=
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another software in a different field.=20

It's more than the fact that they share a name with trademarked items, it's=
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that they share a name with trademarked items, where the trademarks are hel=
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in the same field (in this case computer games) that is the issue.

[1]: That is [2] in my first email, but apparently the USPTO's site is garb=
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and has very strange sessions rules, so you have to search to get to it :(=
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Trademark's serial is 76370446 and IC is "009. US 021 023 026 036 038"


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