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New Intel Trademark Filed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gross-conjecture-reigns dept.

jmanforever writes "Reuters is reporting that 'Intel Inside VIIV' and 'Intel VIIV' were filed as U.S. trademarks. The question is, what does VIIV mean? Could this be the Roman numerals for 6-4 indicating a 64-bit chip, or could this be the Roman numeral five twice, separated by two lines, indicating the dual cores of the Pentium 5 chip?"

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  1. Re:Learn you Roman numerals by painandgreed · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... but it can't be any of those, including 6 4, because that's not how roman numerals are composed. VIIV is nonsense as a roman numeral.

    And that is why they'd be able to trademark it. Can't trademark a number IIRC, which is why they opted for the Pentium name instead of 586. If it were actual Roman numerals, it would be a number and untrademarkable. Since it is nonsence, they can trademark it.

    Sound like an explanatio to anybody else?

  2. Re:Pentium 6 by altan · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is not true. The closest word to "veev" would be "ve", which means and.

    Also, Turkish words cannot have two identical vowels next to each other, going on what I remember about 4th Grade in a Turkish school.