Re: On not using (r) and (tm)

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb at cs.columbia.edu>]

In message <p06200707be2c7a9db22d at [10.20.30.249]>, Paul Hoffman writes:

>Please note that there is a downside to acknowledging a trademark 
>that is quite similar to acknowledging a patent: you are asserting 
>that the trademark/patent is valid even though you haven't done the 
>legal research to validate that.

This, too, is part of our policy:  the IETF doesn't take a position on 
the validity of any IPR, patents or trademarks.  WG participants are 
welcome to make their own judgments.

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb



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