Gonz wrote:
Mark Roberts wrote:
"E.R.N. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mark Roberts wrote:
I bet they wanted to call it "Light Box" but discovered that name is
taken already.
So was "Shadowlands," admittedly by a movie, but perhaps that was
still the reason.
You can register the same trademark as someone else as long as it's not
for competing (or nearly competing) products.
It sometimes depends on the value of the original trademark. The
trademark "Jaws" from the movie was so valuable that the courts
disallowed Sears from trademarking the name Jaws for a trash compactor.
rg
and it may be that they didn't want to bother risking a problem at all.
Or, of course, they may have thought that "light" something would make
for a more appealing product name than "shadow" something -- I would
agree with that, personally.
