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SubjectRe: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:28:58AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> > > Dualpoint (tm) is a trademark of ALPS,
> >
> > Interesting... Dell DualPoint is the way the pointing devices are
> > described in that notebook's documentation, and I remember all the way
> > from back when I purchased the notebook: I really wanted the two
> > pointing devices. If you search the web for Dell Inspiron 8000
> > DualPoint, you'll get a number of hits referring to `Dell's DualPoint
> > technology'. I don't see them referred to as DualPoint(TM), but I
> > vaguely remember having seen something like that in Dell's web site
> > back then.
> >
> > Maybe ALPS bought the trademark from Dell, or Dell hadn't actually
> > registered the trademark, or they somehow managed to get the
> > trademarks registered with a case difference (DualPoint vs Dualpoint)?
> >
>
> I am not sure but on this page ALPS states that they have trademark on
> DualPoint (TM):
>
> http://www3.alps.co.jp/cgi-bin/WebObjects/catalog.woa/wa/varietyList?language=english&country=com&top_mode=2003&productId=11&varietyId=3

Maybe that's why IBM calls their Synaptics touchpad + IBM touchpoint
solution "IBM UltrNav(tm)"? ;)

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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