From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Mon Jan 25 20:50:11 1993 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:52:50 -0500 Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 4571; Tue, 26 Jan 93 01:51:26 EST Received: from CUVMB.BITNET by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 7494; Tue, 26 Jan 93 01:51:28 EST Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:50:11 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: LLG legal victory now official X-To: conlang@buphy.bu.edu, lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu X-Cc: 70674.1215@compuserve.com To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: Message-ID: I have received notice from the Patent and Trademark Office, dated 13 January, that the trademark on "Loglan" has been cancelled in accordance with the appeals court decision of last summer. A public notice should appear in a month or two in the Federal Register (where all federal regulations and rulings get posted). LLG will not change its policy of using "Loglan" as the generic name of the language or familyof languages that have evolved over the past 38 years from the original concept by James Cooke Brown, using "Lojban" to refer to the version of the language that we are supporting, or "Loglan/Lojban" when the reference is to a property of Lojban that we believe is generally true of all of the Loglans. We will of course use "Loglan" in reaching out to the community of people who might be familiar with the Scientific American article from 1960, or who might have been involved with Loglan at one time but gave up on itfor lack of time or because JCB's effort did not seem to be going anywhere. (We have done reasonably well in attracting these people back to the Loglan project and support of Lojban). As in the last sentence, we will also use "the Loglan project" to refer to the research effort that has led to the various versions of Loglan, including Lojban, especially when talking about those goals for the language that JCB set forth earlier in the project such as testing the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Needless to say, everyone else may use the term "Loglan" in any way that they choose, since the name is no longer protected in any way, and will not have any fear of legal action if what they say displeases JCB and/or his organiz- zation. We have had no specific comment from JCB's organization on preferred ways to refer to their version of the language, which they have continued to call simply "Loglan" (derived from the English roots and not the Loglan roots, as "Lojban" is). We of course will not support calling it by the simple name because that would cause confusion with the broader meaning that we have long attributed to the name. Thus pending further comment from JCB or his organization, we will continue using the name "TLI Loglan" to refer the The version promulgated by The Loglan Institute currently (and various names usually associated with a date to refer to earlier versions from which their version and Lojban have both evolved). lojbab ---- lojbab lojbab@grebyn.com Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 For information about the artificial language Loglan/Lojban, please provide a paper-mail address to me via mail or phone. We also have limited introductory information available electronically. The LLG is funded solely by your contributions, which are encouraged for the purpose of defraying our costs (for both electronic and paper distribution.)