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Re:Google One by mikestew on Friday December 14, 2018 @09:15AM (#18680913)
When Porsche was releasing the 911 back in the 60s, Porsche wanted to name it “901”. Except Peugeot had a trademark on three-digit model numbers with a zero in the middle...
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Re:Google One by Latteland on Saturday December 15, 2018 @06:08PM (#18690851)
how could you trademark 0s in the middle? All 3 digits one maybe? that would be 9 * 9 = 81 separate trademarks. Seems like it's too comprehensive.

92818181818 0 1. Probably didn't get that, eh!

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Re:Google One by mikestew on Monday December 17, 2018 @10:45AM (#18699623)
how could you trademark 0s in the middle?

By talking to the French patent office, circa 1950s, apparently. I don't know what you're on about with the rest, but I'm just parroting what's well-documented, you're welcome to go look it up.

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Re:Google One by Latteland on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:31PM (#18727627)
I figured you had to trademark specific numbers, not a regular expression "[0-9]+ 0 [0-9]+", which is how I'd guess it would work in the US, vs enumerating all the numbers in separate trademarks (patent #1 (100), patent #2 (101), ... (909)).
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