From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 19:46:17 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: No SKE in Daytona and other goodies
In-Reply-To: <9407290041.AA20689@anon.penet.fi>
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that one guy says:
> 2) Word on the street is that someone already holds a trademark for
> the term "Tessera"

Yes, this is true. The NSA has picked very bad ones -- Clipper was a
trademark of Intergraph, Tessera was taken, Mosaic (the DMS's name) is
taken, etc.

> and that they have told NSA to cease and desist.

This I don't know to be true. I only know that the trademark was
indeed taken.

Perry