Rand Paul digital - trademark infringement?

[Original_Intent]

Just concerned that the "digital" in the Rand Paul digital.com is a trademark infringement of digital equipment corporation.

Not that I'd rat, and not that they probably care, but I suspect that could be a costly mistake.

[65fastback2+2]

Nope.

RPD's trademark is "Rand Paul Digital"...DEC's trademark is "Digital".

You cannot take them apart. Just because one word appears in the other is not a sign of trademark infringement.

[acptulsa]

Compaq struggled as a result of the merger with Digital,[76] and was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2002. Compaq, and later HP, continued to sell many of the former Digital products but re-branded with their own logos. For example, HP now sells what were formerly Digital's StorageWorks disk/tape products,[78] as a result of the Compaq acquisition.

The Digital logo survived for a while after the company ceased to exist, as the logo of Digital GlobalSoft, an IT services company in India (which was a 51 percent subsidiary of Compaq). Digital GlobalSoft was later renamed "HP GlobalSoft" (also known as the "HP Global Delivery India Center" or HP GDIC), and no longer uses the Digital logo.

I don't see any lawsuit being successful, considering the logo is not appearing on new products, and Rand Paul is not a competitive line of computers. I think HP isn't goofy enough to embarrass the snot out of themselves by pursuing it.

[thoughtomator]

I don't see any lawsuit being successful, considering the logo is not appearing on new products, and Rand Paul is not a competitive line of computers. I think HP isn't goofy enough to embarrass the snot out of themselves by pursuing it.

HP has no love for Carly Fiorina anyway.