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Re: William Hamilton Buck, the saviour?
« on: June 15, 2003, 11:03:05 PM »
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if you read again it says applicant not registrant


Word Mark AMIGA
Goods and Services (ABANDONED) IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: computer software used to facilitate development of software applications that can run on multiple platforms and other electronic devices; operating system software for personal computers and other electronic devices
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Serial Number 76096557
Filing Date July 11, 2000
Filed ITU FILED AS ITU
Published for Opposition April 9, 2002
Owner (APPLICANT) Amiga, Inc. CORPORATION  WASHINGTON 34935 SE Douglas Street, Suite 210 Snoqualmie WASHINGTON 98065
Attorney of Record P. Weston Musselman
Prior Registrations 2319266;2369059
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator DEAD
Abandonment Date January 3, 2003
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Re: William Hamilton Buck, the saviour?
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2003, 11:09:03 PM »
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catohagen wrote:
>But he could release a pegasos with on-board >video in an A1200 style case and call it an >Amiga legally!

what a1200 style case would hold that huge 60mm
tall cpu card ? :-D


Everything has to be bent to fit in here anyway, so I guess it's possible! ;-)
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Re: William Hamilton Buck, the saviour?
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2003, 11:16:14 PM »
Anyway, I wouldn't count on this too much if I were you.

But then again, -you never know! :-D
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Re: William Hamilton Buck, the saviour?
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2003, 10:52:12 AM »
@ HMetal

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The key here is in Buck's recent postings are from an old e-mail dialog he posted, where he says "we will use the Amiga community as early adopters." Key word -> USE.


How naive do you really think we are? Look at Amiga Inc; why were they interested in the Amiga brand from the beginning? They had *exactly the same* motives as Genesi, but I mean, their primary product (Amiga DE or whatever it is called today) has NOTHING to do with Amiga as the community knows it!

I am one of the "Early Adopter" community members who bought myself a Pegasos (and I paid the full price and I am still happy about that :-)). I'll tell you what, I DON'T FEEL USED. I got what I wanted for such a long time, a brand new, NG Amiga system (without the name, but everything else)!

Now ask yourself this, how do you think that most of the community members that bought the $50 coupon feels? How do you think that Peck et al feels? How do you think that everyone that put trust and hope to Amiga Inc feels today?

BTW, it will be interesting to read the show reports from the AmiWest show. I guess *a lot* of people have *a lot* of questions to ask Bill McEwen, President/CEO Amiga, Inc. He IS coming, right? It was his initiative to put that message on the amiga.com site, and not someone elses?
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Re: Update!
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2003, 06:48:13 PM »
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bbrv wrote:
We were noticed today by the USPTO.

The file has been accepted!

Crazy!!!  :-o


So what does this "accept" mean?

That it has been filed for further investigation?

Or that you now can use the "Amiga" brand for "computer software used to facilitate development of software applications that can run on multiple platforms and other electronic devices; operating system software for personal computers and other electronic devices"?

 :-?  :-?
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Re: William Hamilton Buck, the saviour?
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2003, 10:11:24 PM »
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But he could release a pegasos with on-board video in an A1200 style case and call it an Amiga legally! :-D


Not if the holder of 73571532 decides they can't. That trademark is still live and covers: COMPUTERS, COMPUTER DISK DRIVES, RAM EXPANSION CARTRIDGES, COMPUTER MONITORS, AND COMPUTER MODEMS


If someone would like to contact that "holder" (to discuss cooperation for instance), where would you advice them to go?  :-o   :-P
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Re: Update!
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2003, 10:29:53 PM »
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I see the page has contact numbers for the attourneys involved in the case.

Please people, do NOT make an ass of yourselves (and the rest of the amiga crowd) by harassing these people.  If you think Bill Buck does not deserve the amiga trademark, send a reasonably-worded email explaining the fact as you see them.  The last thing I want to read on Slashdot is "trademark lawyer mailbombed by amiga nuts".  That is the kind of publicity we DO NOT need.

Personally, as long as I get to run Hyperion's AmigaOS4, I don't care what else runs on the computer and who owns the name...


You enlighten us that there are contact info (and where) to the attorneys, and you say that one can write some kind of "protest" to them if you don't want BB to have the trademark, and then you say that "please don't mailbomb them"! Wow, talk about contradictions! :-D

Well, I know one certain attorney that is going to be absolutely flooded with nice messages from "nice community members" (Thinking about that auction firm that is selling off Amiga Inc's material assets; "... and please tell the people on your website to *stop* sending us e-mails about this!").  :-P
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