29 Dec
1998
29 Dec
'98
12:17 p.m.
Doug Yowza
I don't remember if Intel actually filed suit to
protect "486", for
example, but they would have had to fight standard industry practice of
using similar part numbers to indicate similar functionality. Something
like "pentium" is much easier to protect, but you could probably open a
Pentium Shoe Store and be on perfectly good legal ground.
I seem to remember a company called Gentium being forced by Intel to change
their name during 1995 as it sounded to similar to their own processor.
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