Warp wrote:
>   Also the logo has to be explicitly trademarked in the first place, AFAIK.

I *think* there are exceptions to this.

Or, rather, there's two ways to be explicit. One is to put (TM) after 
the first use of the trade mark in a publication (that's a smallcaps TM 
superscript, in printing), which tells people it is a trademark. Or you 
can "register" the trademark, and put an R in a circle after it.

If you look at Windows, you'll see things like
   Microsoft(R) Windows(TM) XP

If it's registered, you probably get more damages and such for 
violators, on the grounds that they should be able to easily determine 
they're walking on your trademark.

There's also laws about whether the trademark is "well-known". Something 
like if it's been around for more than 5 years in more than some number 
of geographic areas, it's a "well-known" trademark and slightly 
different rules apply. "Coca-cola" for example is a "well-known" 
trademark. I don't remember what the rules are, tho.

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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