John is correct.
You can do the searches yourself at http://www.uspto.gov.
All of the "bake-off" trademarks found by the system are those relating to
cooking and baked goods, not for software or hardware testing, etc. Some of
these trademarks go back to 1965. But again they are not in the computer
field and so it is not an issue.
- Bernie Volz
-----Original Message-----
From: John Stracke [mailto:francis(_at_)ecal(_dot_)com]
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 4:06 PM
To: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: Bake-off as trademark
"Henning G. Schulzrinne" wrote:
I've been approached regarding the use of the (claimed-to-be)
trademarked term bake-off. It would be helpful if somebody can provide
credible evidence that this term has been used within the technical
community for many years.
Well, there's RFC-1025, published in 1987; is 13 years enough? Also, it
refers to bakeoffs held as early as 1979, though it could be that they
were called something else at the time.
In any case, don't trademarks apply only within a single domain? There
isn't much overlap between the markets for baked goods and network
protocols.
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