Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00545
To: Craig Maynard cybug@home.com, Jean auBois aubois@trail.com
From: Ed Spike spike@engmail.uwaterloo.ca
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 15:17:32 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: BEAM as a trademark
BEAM INC is a corporation that Mark Tilden has (or had) ownership in, I
believe. Mark and I had discussed this a few years ago.
Square Deal Productions Inc. may be Mark's cousin's company.
BEAM I believe comes under copyright.
At 04:17 PM 2/16/1999 -0700, Craig Maynard wrote:
>I've a copy of the 4rth BEAM robot games rulebook ( a little long in the
>tooth now ) which states on the first page:
>
>"Copyright (c) BEAM Robotics, A division of Square Deal Productions
>Inc, All rights reserved "
>
>so there must have been some tie in back in 1994. I wonder who Square
>Deal Productions is?
>
>Craig
>
>Jean auBois wrote:
>>
>
>> There is, in fact, a Square Deal Productions, Inc. whose home is Prince
>> Edward Island, Canada and whose site can be seen at
>> http://www.fixedlink.com/
-- oddly enough, they have absolutely nothing
>> whatsoever to do with BEAM robotics but concerns itself with a bridge that
>> connects the island to the mainland.
>>
>> I still doubt that "BEAM" is trademarked in a legal, binding sense by
>> anyone among the small gods or other BEAM robotics aficionados.
>>
>> Zoz
>
Ed Spike 73,33
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