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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: branches/KDE/3.5/kdegames/doc/kmahjongg
From:       "Christian A. Reiter" <chris.reiter () gmx ! at>
Date:       2006-01-11 22:42:09
Message-ID: 200601112342.12376.chris.reiter () gmx ! at
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>
> Surprised me that this game of such long origin can be trademarked.
> Anyway, the Mahjong described in wikipedia and the one in KDE are
> 2 completely different games. The one in KDE is a single player
> tile matching game, the one in wikipedia needs 4 players (or
> 1 human + 3 AI players) to play. They have different names in China.
>
> Abel
>
> > But as the spelling we use is a different one, should we really keep the
> > trademark sign?
> >

Excuse me to join this conversation, but I know that it doesn't matter if the 
game is the same or not. It has to do with the name itself, not what it is or 
represents.
And it depends on how exact the Trademark is defined, and how agressive the 
policy of its owner is.
For example, everybody knows Asterix and Obelix, don't you?
So we in Austria have a furniture discounter, they called themselves "Mobelix" 
- and they were forced by law to rename themselves into "Möbelix" (because 
"Möbel" means "furniture" in German) - the reason was: the name "Mobelix" is 
to close at "Obelix".

So I think it would be a good idea to get someone check the trademark laws 
that "Mah-Jongg" (or however) relies on.

Sorry for my maybe improper English, btw.

Chris

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