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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>Hi Alberto,<br><br>A point of clarification regarding the HPSDR and TAPR relationship. The involvement that TAPR has with HPSDR is the occasional manufacturing and marketing of hardware that is designed and developed by the various HPSDR project leaders. HPSDR is not a a part of TAPR.<br><br>A quotation from the TAPR web page,<br><br>"The goals of TAPR are to:<br>1) support R&D efforts in the area of amateur digital communications.<br>2) disseminate information on packet and digital communications.<br>3) provide affordable and useful kits for experimenters and hobbyists.<br>4) pursue and help advance the amateur art of communications.<br>5) support publications, meetings, and standards in the area of amateur digital communications." <br><br>TAPR, in fact, promotes many other radio and electronic interests besides HPSDR.<br><br><span>It is very doubtful that
either Wind River Software or PrismTech has or would undertake the registration of a trademark for "High Performance Software Defined Radio." By definition, a trademark
typically protects brand names and logos used on goods and services. For more information on Trademarks and Trade Names in the United States please take a look at this link. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/index.jsp">http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/index.jsp</a> </span><br><br>The (Square Waves in Quadrature) HPSDR logo is marked as a trademark with the TM symbol and is also copyrighted per the Circle C symbol. Because of the TM symbol, it is presumed to be a protected trademark. It does not have the Circle R symbol, because it is not government registered.<br><br>BTW, thank you for the HPSDR interface to your most excellent Winrad program.<br><br>73,<br><br>Dan N4XWE<br><br><br><br><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr
size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Alberto I2PHD <i2phd@weaksignals.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> HPSDR list <hpsdr@lists.openhpsdr.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, January 3, 2011 8:10:23 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [hpsdr] Name clash ?<br></font><br>
***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****<br><br>
<font face="Tahoma">I just came across this YouTube video....<br>
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Is the name High Performance Software Defined Radio (HPSDR)
registered by somebody ?<br>
If not, couldn't Wind River and PrismTech sue TAPR for illegal use
of the name ?<br>
I am not a lawyer (thanks God), so maybe I am fully wrong here...
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2DoOxWbrtw&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2DoOxWbrtw&feature=related</a></span><br>
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<i><b>73 Alberto I2PHD</b></i>
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