Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262473AbVBCPpx (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:45:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263037AbVBCPpw (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:45:52 -0500 Received: from styx.suse.cz ([82.119.242.94]:8902 "EHLO mail.suse.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262473AbVBCPp2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:45:28 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:45:35 +0100 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: dtor_core@ameritech.net Cc: Alexandre Oliva , Pete Zaitcev , Peter Osterlund , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2 Message-ID: <20050203154535.GA2801@ucw.cz> References: <20050201234148.4d5eac55@localhost.localdomain> <20050202102033.GA2420@ucw.cz> <20050202085628.49f809a0@localhost.localdomain> <20050202170727.GA2731@ucw.cz> <20050202095851.27321bcf@localhost.localdomain> <20050203084900.GA2594@ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1473 Lines: 34 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)"? ;) -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/