On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Bob Bradlee <caveguy at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Deliberate mis-spellings are very common to
distinguish registered
trademarks.
Compaq(r) is a solid trademark where Compact Computer would not pass muster
with the USTPO as being
discriptive.
The common pain pill Aleve got its name when it's origional relief based
name was rejected as being
generic.
Aleve was not a real word in use and was easily registered even though
phoneticly very close.
Deliberate mis-spellings are often used to try to get around trademark
restrictions, only to fail the likeliness
of confusion test and end up dealing with angry lawyers.
later...
The other Bob
COMPAQ originally stood for 'COMPAtability with Quality' because of their
IBM-copyright busting compatible BIOS. That's the official line anyhoo :)
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