IANAL, but AFAIK you cannot trademark common English words. The example I've always seen is that you cannot trademark the word "orange", but you could trademark a unique phrase containing the word "orange".
From the proposal link on the guy's site: I have chosen to work on this project, as I am keen to learn about development for non-Intel based systems and I am very interested in low-level networking. This project will allow me to explore both areas of interest while still only working on one project. An extra advantage of this project is that it ties in very well with the rest of my course as I am also studying Computer Networks: Principals and Applications (CNPA) and Distributed and Parallel Systems. My project and the CNPA course will complement each other very well, as I will be studying some of the required protocols in details as part of the course. From the work I do on this project, the main area in which I will expand my understanding is in the functionality of a number of network protocols. This knowledge should be very useful for any future project I wish to undertake which involve the use of network functions. This project will also fit in with my specialist award as I'm aiming for a Computing and Networking specialist degree.
Talking about patents and search engines, I was wondering recently what is to stop someone from settng up a web search form which passes queries to their own script, which then calls (say) Googles CGI, parses the results and presents them as their own, in their own page?
Scientists should be looking for ways to better control the balance, not pushing it until it breaks (were we don't learn anything Isn't that sort of like "hacking" though? You know, looking at the source code, changing a bit to see what happens and then learning from the results?
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IANAL, but AFAIK you cannot trademark common English words. The example I've always seen is that you cannot trademark the word "orange", but you could trademark a unique phrase containing the word "orange".
Er...Orange
Why does the Slashdot Java icon look like a bucket of steaming poo?
Ah. Never mind.
I have discovered a truly remarkable link for that book which this margin is too small to contain.
...and my personal favourite
From the proposal link on the guy's site:
I have chosen to work on this project, as I am keen to learn about development for non-Intel based systems and I am very interested in low-level networking. This project will allow me to explore both areas of interest while still only working on one project.
An extra advantage of this project is that it ties in very well with the rest of my course as I am also studying Computer Networks: Principals and Applications (CNPA) and Distributed and Parallel Systems. My project and the CNPA course will complement each other very well, as I will be studying some of the required protocols in details as part of the course.
From the work I do on this project, the main area in which I will expand my understanding is in the functionality of a number of network protocols. This knowledge should be very useful for any future project I wish to undertake which involve the use of network functions.
This project will also fit in with my specialist award as I'm aiming for a Computing and Networking specialist degree.
Talking about patents and search engines, I was wondering recently what is to stop someone from settng up a web search form which passes queries to their own script, which then calls (say) Googles CGI, parses the results and presents them as their own, in their own page?
Is that legal?
Scientists should be looking for ways to better control the balance, not pushing it until it breaks (were we don't learn anything Isn't that sort of like "hacking" though? You know, looking at the source code, changing a bit to see what happens and then learning from the results?