Heathkit Knobs

[John Dolan]

> a replacment FOR a heathkit radio, but you couldn't say it's a HEATHKIT
> KNOB, because in the first sense you're describing the radio,
> and in the other sense, your infringing on the TRADE NAME because
> you're saying it IS their knob.
> Just my opinion.  wd8aam

Is the Heathkit name being used by anyone today?  One of the requirements
of trademark rights is that you must be using it.  One of the classic
cases in this area of marketing and law was IPANA toothpaste.  They just
stopped making it.  After a few years and as a test, someone contracted
for a few truckloads of generic toothpaste labeled with Ipana, and it
sold like hot cakes at an attractive markup over generic toothpaste, and
it was legal.

I'm thinking about a SB xxx product.  An add-on product for those
thousands of SB out there that folks still like, but drift like crazy.
Anyone got any recommendations for the design of such a product... a
variable crystal oscillator, or a frequency synthesizer (are there ASIGs
cheap enough yet to do this)
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Regards,
John Dolan
K3FIG
jdolan at erols.com

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