A persistent report attributed to DEC insiders suggests the choice of the AXP tag for the processor was made by DEC's legal department, which was still smarting from the VAX trademark fiasco.

Although the term is often used to refer to any puppet that resembles the distinctive style of The Muppet Show, the term is both an informal name and legal trademark owned by the Walt Disney Company in reference to the original characters created by Henson.

The team's use of the phrase " 12th Man " was in a legal limbo for a while between the 2005 and 2006 seasons when Texas A & M University sued the team for trademark infringement.

After several legal confrontations, the parties settled their claims in 2006, partially re-negotiating the 1998 licensing agreement, which allows Stainbrook and Staind the right to use the trademark in certain areas.

" Plaintiffs ( Scientologists ) have abused the federal court system by using it, inter alia, to destroy their opponents, rather than to resolve an actual dispute over trademark law or any other legal matter.

He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications, and he has called for state-based activism to promote substantive reform of government with a Second Constitutional Convention.

PETA later surrendered the domains under threat of similar legal action over trademark infringement.

Letterman renamed a few of his regular bits to avoid legal problems over trademark infringement ( NBC cited that what he did on Late Night was " intellectual property " of the network ).

According to a U. S. District Court Memorandum of Decision in 1993, Scientologists " have abused the federal court system by using it, inter alia, to destroy their opponents, rather than to resolve an actual dispute over trademark law or any other legal matter.

The primary reason for recording under his own name was legal difficulties, due to the complex copyright and trademark issues surrounding the name " Parliament " ( primarily ) and Polygram's purchase of that group's former label Casablanca Records.

In 1997, a newspaper report noted that Warner Brothers had " trademarked the character and registered the name Tasmanian Devil ", and that this trademark " was policed ", including an eight year legal case to allow a Tasmanian company to call a fishing lure the Tasmanian Devil.

The new law introduced various substantive and procedural changes, such as expanding the legal definition of a trademark ; including or broadening protection for certification marks, collective marks, and well-known trade marks ; reducing the period of non-use for revocation purpose from five to three years ; and simplifying and streamlining procedures for the registration of assignments, and " registrable transactions " such as licenses.

A legal risk of such popularity is that the name may become so widely accepted that it becomes a generic term and loses trademark protection.

It holds copyright and trademark ownership over its cross and has taken legal action against individuals and organizations that have quoted short paragraphs of Scientology texts in print or on web sites.

A trademark thus popularized has its legal protection at risk in some countries such as the United States, as its intellectual property rights in the trademark may be lost and competitors enabled to use the genericized trademark to describe their similar products, unless the owner of an affected trademark works sufficiently to correct and prevent such broad use.

Because OSI does not have a registered trademark for the term " open source ", its legal ability to prevent such usage of the term is limited, but Tiemann advocates using public opinion from OSI, customers, and community members to pressure such organizations to change their license or to use a different term.

In 1936 the Stilton Cheesemakers ' Association ( SCMA ) was formed to lobby for regulation to protect the quality and origin of the cheese, and in 1966 Stilton was granted legal protection via a certification trademark, the only British cheese to have received this status.

This often intimidates domain name owners into transferring ownership of their domain names to trademark owners to avoid legal action, particularly when the domain names belong to smaller organizations or individuals.

A DBA filing carries no legal weight in instances where a trademark would be necessary.

Registrars and ISP's now normally have measures such as a Redemption Grace Period to provides some protection, but unless the original registrant holds a trademark or other legal entitlement to the name, they are often left without any form of recourse in getting the domain name back.

The company officially went bankrupt, though the Italian government used the legal mean " commissariamento " to save the trademark.

The distracted Miriam would agree to a settlement through her legal representative, then change her mind and make another attack on Wright as a person.

Mr. Stavropoulos is the U.N. legal chief and a very good man, but he is not fully versed on some technical points of American law ''.

Peter Marshall noted that Bang-Jensen had later referred to his two interviews with the Gross group as `` unfortunate experiences '', and after his second meeting on the sixteenth the Dane refused to attend further hearings without legal counsel.

If the last day ( due date ) for performing any act for tax purposes, such as filing a return or making a tax payment, etc., falls on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, you may perform that act on the next succeeding day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.

If A taxpayer dies, the executor, administrator, or legal representative must file the final return for the decedent on or before the 15th day of the 4th month following the close of the deceased taxpayer's normal tax year.

Unlimited game bags are possible and legal in more than 40 states, on shooting preserves ( one of the newer phases of modern game-management ) for five and six months each year.

Although admitting Brown's guilt on legal grounds, Day said that, `` Brown is no common criminal ; ;

( 2 ) Realtors realize, of course, that they are involved in an increasingly complex legal and political system that is opening up opportunities for leverage on their relation to clients as well as opportunities for evasion of their responsibility for racial discrimination in housing.

Thus, moral issues concerning the nature of the legal and political processes take on theological dimensions.

Depending on the particular legal rules that apply to each circumstance, a party to a court case who is unhappy with the result might be able to challenge that result in an appellate court on specific grounds.

The appellate court will typically be deferential to the lower court's findings of fact ( such as whether a defendant committed a particular act ), unless clearly erroneous, and so will focus on the court's application of the law to those facts ( such as whether the act found by the court to have occurred fits a legal definition at issue ).

Therefore, if a lower court has ruled in an improper manner, or against legal precedent, that judgment will stand if not appealed – even if it might have been overturned on appeal.

The United States legal system generally recognizes two types of appeals: a trial " de novo " or an appeal on the record.

On the other hand, the appellate court normally gives less deference to a lower court's decision on issues of law, and may reverse if it finds that the lower court applied the wrong legal standard.

The legal system was based on Portuguese and customary law but was weak and fragmented.

* To obtain a declaration on a legal document, such as an application for voter registration, that the information provided by the applicant is truthful to the best of the applicant's knowledge.

Originally, the Church of England was self-contained and relied for its unity and identity on its own history, its traditional legal and episcopal structure and its status as an established church of the state.

The Archbishop of Canterbury's role is strictly symbolic and unifying and the Communion's three international bodies are consultative and collaborative, their resolutions having no legal effect on the autonomous provinces of the Communion.

) There are also numerous instances where the killer is not brought to justice in the legal sense but instead dies ( death usually being presented as a more ' sympathetic ' outcome ), for example Death Comes as the End, And Then There Were None, Death on the Nile, Dumb Witness, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Crooked House, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, Nemesis, Cat Among the Pigeons, and The Secret Adversary.

In the US and some other countries, because of legal and tax restrictions on alcohol consumption, ethanol destined for other uses often contains additives that make it unpalatable ( such as denatonium benzoate ) or poisonous ( such as methanol ).

* Abatement in pleading, a legal defense to civil and criminal actions based purely on procedural and technical issues involving the death of parties