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Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 10:31:44 -0400
From: Patrick McGlamery <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: METADATA as a Trademark <fwd>
Sender: Patrick McGlamery <[log in to unmask]>


Dear Joe;

The company that holds the METADATA trademark is a US company.  Go to
www.metadata.com and check it out.

Patrick McGlamery

Johnnie Sutherland wrote:

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> Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 02:56:56 CDT
> From: Joseph McCollum <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: METADATA as a Trademark <fwd>
> Sender: Joseph McCollum <[log in to unmask]>
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> On Fri, 19 May 2000 15:09:44 -0400 Johnnie Sutherland
> <[log in to unmask]> writes:
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> >Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 17:11:03 -0500
> >From: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: METADATA as a Trademark
> >Sender: [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
> >I am not a part of your list, but thought you might like some
> >background/history/resource information about trademarks (at least in
> >the US). I am the Patent and Trademark Librarian at a Patent and
> Trademark
> >Depository Library, a program sponsored by the United States Patent
> >and Trademark Office (USPTO).
> >
> >First some resources:
> >
> >The letter to the colleague (or colleague's client) said:
> >"Our client's mark is registered as U.S. Trademark Registration Nos.
> >1,409,260 and 2,185,504"
> >
> >This can be verified at the USPTO's TESS database or Trademarkscan US
> >Federal (available from Dialog and possible other online services).  I
> >did this and sure enough, those two marks are the only ones registered
> for
> >Metadata. Interestingly an Australian company applied for Metadata for
> >computer software, but the application was abandoned at the
> >applicant's request. Hmmm... (the database doesn't have the detail of
> the
> >correspondence).
> >
>
> >****************************************
> >Donna Hopkins
> >Patents/Engineering Librarian
> >141 Middleton Library
> >Louisiana State University
> >Baton Rouge, LA 70803
> >(225)388-8264
> >[log in to unmask]
> >
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>
> Are you aware that USGS (the United States Geological Survey) and the
> Federal Geographic Data Committee routinely use this word -- and ask
> others preparing maps under their standards to use it as well?  (As do
> people in other sciences besides geography)  It says 1986 as trademark
> date -- unfortunately I cannot claim that this already was a generic word
> before then (in the scientific community at least) -- but I am inclined
> to believe that it is.  Is this Australian outfit prepared to sue the
> United States government?
>
> Joseph McCollum
> USDA Forest Service
> Asheville, NC
>
> I would ask interested parties to also check out the League for
> Programming Freedom.
> http://lpf.ai.mit.edu
>
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