Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:22:40 -0800 (PST), Alexandre Oliva
<aoliva@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Feb  3, 2005, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:30:14AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> >> On Feb  2, 2005, Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:07:27 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> wrote:
> >>
> >> >> With a Synaptics I suppose? You wouldn't like it with an ALPS.
> >>
> >> > No, it's a Dualpoint, and so ALPS.
> >>
> >> Err...  That doesn't follow.  My Dell Inspiron 8000 has a Synaptics
> >> touchpad as part of the Dualpoint pointing devices.
> 
> > Dualpoint (tm) is a trademark of ALPS,
> 
> Interesting...  Dell DualPoint is the way the pointing devices are
> described in that notebook's documentation, and I remember all the way
> from back when I purchased the notebook: I really wanted the two
> pointing devices.  If you search the web for Dell Inspiron 8000
> DualPoint, you'll get a number of hits referring to `Dell's DualPoint
> technology'.  I don't see them referred to as DualPoint(TM), but I
> vaguely remember having seen something like that in Dell's web site
> back then.
> 
> Maybe ALPS bought the trademark from Dell, or Dell hadn't actually
> registered the trademark, or they somehow managed to get the
> trademarks registered with a case difference (DualPoint vs Dualpoint)?
> 

I am not sure but on this page ALPS states that they have trademark on
DualPoint (TM):

http://www3.alps.co.jp/cgi-bin/WebObjects/catalog.woa/wa/varietyList?language=english&country=com&top_mode=2003&productId=11&varietyId=3

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Dmitry