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cholin:
Well, who here uses their cabinet for commercial use or plans to sell it.  Personally, I dont.  Its not like if I use MAME hes going to come to my house and rip my marquee off!  I still think this is wrong though, just not as badly as yous.

Shape D.:

--- Quote from: cholin on February 21, 2005, 07:24:33 pm ---Well, who here uses their cabinet for commercial use or plans to sell it.  Personally, I dont.  Its not like if I use MAME hes going to come to my house and rip my marquee off!  I still think this is wrong though, just not as badly as yous.

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--- Quote from: 1UP on February 21, 2005, 07:01:23 pm ---BTW, this is just one more in the long list of obstacles I've encountered on my long road to market legal cabinets. I've sorted out all the other issues holding me back, and now this? :(

Contrary to this guy's assertions, it is possible to license packages of StarRoms in the end-user's name at the time of sale. I have verified this personally with the StarRoms sales team.

So my cabs will feature legally obtained, properly licensed games ONLY, and the user is required to obtain and install MAME themselves to comply with the wishes of the MAMEdevs. Yet I may be held back by this stupid trademark from even mentioning Mame on my site. In the words of Q*bert, @&^*%!!!

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Pete Harcoff:
After reading his letters and some of the other posts, I find this whole thing bizarre.

Crazy Cooter:
http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=76627578+&action=Request+Status

He is laying claim to MAME itself.  Anything that has to do with MAME (artwork) would come with the package.

"Computer software that enables the emulation of multiple arcade games and their associated hardware, allowing them to run on a general purpose computer operating system"
-From link above-

So if he were granted the TM, he could shut down anything & everything that mentioned MAME and had anything to do with computer software

Tommy Boy:

--- Quote from: Pete Harcoff on February 21, 2005, 07:38:13 pm ---After reading his letters and some of the other posts, I find this whole thing bizarre.  There are two things I don't understand.

Supposing he gets the trademark, couldn't makers of other cabs get around this by:

A) Not mentioning the MAME software at all and instead simply state that it can play thousands of arcade games?

Or,

B) Simply mention that it can run the MAME software, but include a standard disclaimer (MAME is trademarked by yada-yada-yada)?

It seems to me that the only people this would affect are people who use the MAME logo in any great capacity.  It's hardly going to stamp out piracy.

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I agree with you Pete.  I just went out to Sun's website and found the following quote within 30 seconds:

"...You will be in good hands with Sun. We've already helped thousands of businesses move from legacy IT platforms (like HP-UX, Tru-64 and more) to a solid foundation based on products, technologies and services that offer better resource utilization, higher levels of dependability and lower total cost of ownership."

Does anybody think that HP gave Sun approval to use their registered trademarks as part of a Sun ad -- especially when it's an invitation to customers to migrate away from HP?  As long as Sun isn't trying to sell a box that has "HP" on it or an operating system named "HP-UX Killer", etc.  I don't think there's a foul here.  In the end, owning a trademark doesn't buy you much if you don't have rights to the technology underneath...

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