Re: Dewey, the Library Hotel and U. Illinois

[Samuel Trosow <strosow@uwo.ca>]

Bernie and Rick raise an excellent point. You do not have to go very far
to find instances of Dewey Decimal Classification, DDC, Dewey Decimal
System, etc. used without the TM designation.

Check these pages:

http://www.oclc.org/dewey/default.htm
http://www.oclc.org/dewey/about/default.htm
http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/dewey/
http://www.oclc.org/dewey/versions/ddc22print/
http://www.oclc.org/dewey/versions/webdewey/
http://www.oclc.org/dewey/versions/abridgededition14/
(none of which have a visible TM indicia or marking)

Compare with:

http://www.oclc.org/news/announcements/announcement40.htm
(which has the registered TM notation)

Samuel Trosow

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Sloan, Bernie wrote:

> And I imagine that the U of Illinois is not alone in this. There are
> probably a lot of examples, which doesn't exactly help OCLC's case against
> the Library Hotel.
>
> By the way, I wasn't defending OCLC in my earlier note. Sue Martin had
> asked "Which is it, copyright or trademark?" I was clarifying that it was
> trademark, and not copyright.
>
> Bernie Sloan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Anderson [mailto:rickand@unr.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 11:47 AM
> Subject: Dewey, the Library Hotel and U. Illinois (RE: )
>
> > Terms such as "Dewey Decimal System", "DDC", etc., are registered
> > trademarks owned by OCLC.
> >
> > The Library Hotel uses these registered trademarks without indicating they
> > are registered trademarks.
> As does the U. of Illinois.  See here for an example:
>
> http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/reference/resources/uiccat/
>
> -------------
> Rick Anderson
> rickand@unr.edu