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To: Edwin S. Fujinaka who wrote (3517)	1/26/2000 2:14:00 PM
From: astyanax	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6018

Re: DVIN trademarking "Internet Zaibatsu". I kid you not Edwin. I remember being quite surprised when I read through many pages of boring data in DVIN filings, and this jumped out, buried deep within the filing: === Our partner companies have copyrights and patents with respect to software applications, web sites and other works of authorship or invention. These materials may constitute an important part of our partner companies' assets and competitive strengths. Federal law generally protects our partner companies' copyrights for a period ending on the earlier of 100 years from the creation of the underlying work or 75 years from the publication of the underlying work. "divine interVentures" and "Internet Zaibatsu" are our trademarks. We have applied to register these marks with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. All other brand, product or company names in this prospectus are trade names, trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. === Let's not forget that the lord of tech VCs itself, KPCB, has several venture funds named "zaibatsu fund". Does anyone know how much it costs to get a trademark? I haven't tm'd 'Netconductor' yet. :) I shall also try tm'ing "Internet keiretsu" for my budding business... - Netconductor.com