Probably so. D'ya think the same even with the registered mark and the trademark mark, as I wrote it in my original?



>If you combined your company logo (fox head + lightning bolt) with "Powered by Microsoft Visual FoxPro", MS would probably complain that the combination would create confusion and would try to prevent you from combining the two into one image.
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>IANAL, so it's my guess too. But I tend to look for the negatives anyway <g>.
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>>Hi Fernando,
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>>Since I couldn't find a definition for "re-branding" in my Concise Oxford dictionary, I really don't know.
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>>I will offer a guess. . .
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>>The words "Powered by Microsoft Visual FoxPro" name a product. Now that product has, as is well known, a fox head as its logo. A fox head in a particular style. A fox head that MS may well have paid much $ to have designed to be exactly so.
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>>Now along comes this outside graphic with the words "Powered by Microsoft Visual FoxPro" but with a different fox head, with a lightning bolt added.
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>>This new fox head is not one that MS 'owns', nor is it the one that MS wishes to have associated with its product called "Visual FoxPro".
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>>I cannot imagine that the objection is to the words themselves, but it is possible, given the legal profession's propensity to pick fleas from elephants and turn them into steam-rollers.
>>I mean, if I put my company's logo on my splash screen and immediately under it I wrote "Powered by Microsoft® Visual FoxPro™" I would think they would be pleased. Now what if my company logo was the fox head Michel offered along with a lightning bolt.
>>Would there be objections to that?... I mean, MS does NOT recognize that fox head as its official logo for the product in question and I would be presenting **my** company logo (which obviously is sufficiently different, by MS legal's own position, to say that it is NOT the one associated with their product).
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>>In summary, I have no clue. That's just my guess.
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>>Cheers
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>>>Hi Jim,
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>>>I really must have a real big problem with visual stuff, or my memory is failing once more! Could you (or maybe somebody else) help telling me what is the MS trademarked logo in question that was considered to be "re-branded" (whatever that means) by UT?
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>>>Regards,
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>>>Fernando