[802SEC] IEEE 802.16 press release
Title: IEEE 802.16 press release
Karen,
Thanks for getting the IEEE 802.16 press
release onto the IEEE-SA front page:
http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/80216app.html
While I knew that IEEE had trademarked
"WirelessMAN", I was surprised to find the trademark symbol
attached to "802.16" (in 12 places). I'd like to better
understand exactly what the trademark covers. I'm a little confused
by the press release's statement that "IEEE Std 802.16,
WirelessMAN is a trademark of the IEEE." Exactly what term is
trademarked?
[By the way, I didn't find
"802.16" on the USPTO site <http://tess.uspto.gov>.
(I did, however, find "802" registered to IEEE for
"pamphlets of standards and specifications for local and
metropolitan area networks", to Wayne Gretzky for hockey
equipment, and to the Bose Corporation for
loudspeakers).]
I would like to voice an objection to one
particular use of the trademark symbol in the press release: the
reference to our previously-published standard as "IEEE Standard
802.16.2". I request that you reconsider this use of the
trademark symbol inside a standard number. I hope that, if you agree
with me, you will correct the version on the web.
Thanks for all your help in getting the
press release out.
Roger
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Dr. Roger B. Marks
<mailto:marks@nist.gov>
Chair, IEEE 802.16 WG on Broadband Wireless Access
<http://WirelessMAN.org>
National Wireless Electronic Systems Testbed (N-WEST)
<http://nwest.nist.gov>
National Institute of Standards and Technology/Boulder, CO
<http://www.nist.gov>
tel: +1 303 497 3037 fax: +1 303 497 7828