Date   : Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:44:28 +0100
From   : faz@... (Neil F)
Subject: A new Element 14

I think it was set up by a few of the old Acorn sales staff who
thought there was enough residual goodwill in the Acorn brand
(especially in education) to warrant the investment. It's purely a
sales operation - no R&D or RISC OS connection as far as I know. Just
trying to mop up what's left of any possible 'Acorn' sales leads I
would guess.

There were some news items about the company setting up a couple of
years ago, on the csa newsgroups IIRC.

-Neil F.


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 25 July 09 10:27
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Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] A new Element 14

samwise wrote:

> http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/DRS/2006/3682.html

Had a brief look...

[snip]
     ?    It is registered at Companies House under the name "Acorn 
Computers Limited".

     ?    It holds the rights to the ACORN trade mark, number 2343001,

registered since 17 July 2003.

[snip]

     ?    The ACORN trade mark has been registered since the 1980's
and 
is a well known brand in computing.

[snip]

Is the new Acorn trying to pass itself off on the original? Sure,
okay, 
there is a company called Acorn Computers - but being a shifter of PC 
based laptops by the initial look of things, it has about as much 
relevance to the original brand as the bloke's website that was 
'claimed'. Isn't something a little bit dodgy going on here?

For what it is worth - I love the bit "is a well known brand in 
computing", cheers! :-)


Best wishes,

Rick.




     ?    The Complainant has invested ?100,000 in marketing and is
due 
to invest a further ?300,000 in the next 6 months.

     ?    The Domain Name was registered at a time when the ACORN
trade 
mark was still in force.


-- 
Rick Murray, irregular internet access at local library.
BBC B: DNFS, 2 x 5.25" floppies, EPROM prog, Acorn TTX
E01S FileStore, A3000/A5000/RiscPC/various PCs/blahblah...



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