"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. (In case you didn't know,
http://www.bakeoff.com/ shows the non-technical use....)
Thank you.
It wouldn't matter if we'd been using the term since only last Wednesday.
Most trademark systems that I'm aware of share a doctrine of separation
of intended audience. So the word "bake-off" in the technical
"market" of the Internet community is entirely seperate from the
"market" of Pillsbury pastry products.
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