On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Wayne Allen wrote: > The problem a lot of companies with trademarks have, is if you do > nothing then the trademark becomes invalid anyway - you have to actively > protect your trademarks to continue the protection. > You don't have to go after every minor transgression which doesn't affect your market (I don't think Sparkfun are competing with Fluke here) - the USPTO have said as much. The other assumption being that such a broad brush trademark is valid in the first place, which is questionable. Chris --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .