> IMO It's a bunch of grammatical tomfoolery to appease the legal
>beagles who are ostensibly protecting Palm's trademark.
It may seem like tomfoolery but there is a certain legal requirements when
using trademarks in general not just for Palm. Somebody posted a URL here
some time ago to a page describing the 'legal' way all trademarks must be
used. It was rather useful and may be worth reading. The docs in the
Pavilion are enough to show you specific examples how the use the Palm trade
marks and keep Palm off your back.
Just wait until someone writes a review and miss-quotes your product name
because another developer used your trademark incorrectly in his/her
credits. I've recently see it done to our products as recently as last
week.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, April 19, 1999 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: How do YOU refer to the Palm Device?
>Scott Johnson wrote:
>>
>> Alan Macy wrote:
>> > which should I use:
>> > ..HotSync the records to your device formerly known as PalmPilot
>>
>> Download the Marketing Communications Guidelines document from the
>> Provider Pavilion area at http://www.palm.com/devzone . It contains
>> more than you ever wanted to know about Palm trademark usage.
>>
>> I've asked Palm if they have a documentation style guide, but was told
>> there is no such thing. So this legalistic trademark document is
>> probably the best guideline.
>
> I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing here, but the
>brand identity disc is available for free as well. The guidelines.pdf
>file on the CD contains a ton of examples.
>
>> (Hint: you can't use HotSync as a verb like that.)
>
>Alan:
> IMO It's a bunch of grammatical tomfoolery to appease the legal
>beagles who are ostensibly protecting Palm's trademark. (Maybe I'm
>being a little cynical, but reading through that style document will
>make a cynic out of anyone.)
> Try: "Use HotSync(R) technology to send the records to your Palm
>Computing(R) platform device."
> Or: "Send the records to your Palm V(TM), Palm IIIx(TM), Palm
>III(TM) or PalmPilot connected organizer using HotSync(R) technology."
><gratuitious vomiting>
> The best one is Graffiti. (wrong!) Instead, use Graffiti(R) power
>writing software. (right) ;)
>
>-Daniel.
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