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• a-greed
  The only reasonable conclusion that can be made from this article has been stated above.

  August 15, 2006

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• Class maybe...
  I own a couple line 6 pods. Quite good gear, but it is not clear whether or not Line 6 has relevant TM's regarding the "pod" designation. Also, the L6 Pod, is a great example of why Apple does in fact need to do this. TM rulings are not always a matter of who was there first, but in many cases a TM ruling has to do with Market presence, and efforts to protect.
  
  For example: John Doe might have taken a TM out on "Mickey Mouse" in 1910, but if he hasn't done anything to protect his TM while some 50+ years later Disney has become the "Mickey Mouse" we all know about, then John Doe's TM is of very little value.
  
  In the end few legal matters have to do with class, and I suspect that Steve Jobs isn't personally behind any specific attempts to protect their marketspace other than generally approving the legal methods needed to do so.

  August 15, 2006

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• No, this is more general
  Every company needs to do this.
  Sad but true. Otherwise there is no point in the TM.

  August 15, 2006

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• This is a must.
  Every company that has trademarks has to show a reasonable effort to protect it's mark, otherwise the courts can say that the scope of their TM has declined due to their own lack of policing.
  
  This has more to do with legal issues than with Apple in particular.

  August 15, 2006

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• Sony boycott
  I have been doing my own personal boycott of sony for about 2
  years now... I have never been a music downloader, but i can't
  stand sony's heavy handed approach to dealing with copy
  protection. They are perfectly willing to sacrifice functionality
  any quality to pretect their cartel, so i prefer to avaid their
  products.
  
  As far as I'm concerned Sony is a brand for technological noobs,
  something you see all nastied up at a wallmart, next to an 'e-
  machine' or something. Their main mistake is assuming that
  anyone who wants to make a copy of anything should be
  stopped. Only begrudgingly allowing the consumer to make
  copies. This isn't the first method they have tested out on the
  consumer, and it won't be the last.
  
  I went to their store recently and everything in it looked like ass
  too. The computer monitors were majorly ghosting out the
  images from some clearly video card challenged Viao's, and
  some numnuts employee was telling a mom that Sony makes the
  best everything. I choked back a laugh and interupted him to
  point out the clearly poor quality of monitor next to him, and
  asked him if annoying copy protection software came standard
  on all sony equipment. He got really flustered, and I considered
  thatmy good deed for the day. Pass it along, help other stop
  buying sony.

  November 12, 2005

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• Smelling the future
  How come they only see or hear into the future?
  
  Why has there never been one that smells into the future or
  tastes or feels even?
  
  That's what I'd like to know... i think it undercuts the whole
  community.
  ;) In reply to: "Lost island 'Atlantis' may be found"

  August 16, 2005

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• Smelling the future
  How come they only see or hear into the future?
  
  Why has there never been one that smells into the future or
  tastes or feels even?
  
  That's what I'd like to know... i think it undercuts the whole
  community.
  ;) In reply to: "Lost island 'Atlantis' may be found"

  August 16, 2005

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• There are so many leaps of faith in that
  In the sense that anything is possible, what you say is true.
  In the sense that some things are more or less likely...
  
  I'd have to say that it would be extremely unlikely for a
  cloistered civilization to develop that far past every other
  contemporary civilization. Some physical record of their
  acheivements should remain, as bronze age civilizations left a
  lot of clues to their existence. In reply to: "Lost island 'Atlantis' may be found"

  August 16, 2005

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• There are so many leaps of faith in that
  In the sense that anything is possible, what you say is true.
  In the sense that some things are more or less likely...
  
  I'd have to say that it would be extremely unlikely for a
  cloistered civilization to develop that far past every other
  contemporary civilization. Some physical record of their
  acheivements should remain, as bronze age civilizations left a
  lot of clues to their existence. In reply to: "Lost island 'Atlantis' may be found"

  August 16, 2005

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• i found this interesting... seems to be disputed.
  http://archaeology.about.com/od/controversies/a/
  atlantis05_3.htm In reply to: "Lost island 'Atlantis' may be found"

  August 15, 2005

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