[etherlab-users] EtherCAT master license

Armin Steinhoff armin at steinhoff.de
Wed Feb 22 20:59:44 CET 2012


Florian Pose wrote:
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> Am 21.02.2012 22:18, schrieb Armin Steinhoff:
>> the IEC 61158-x-12 standard contains in standardization papers the
>> specification " Type 12: EtherCAT" Is "EtherCAT here a registered
>> trade mark? Or is it just the name of the protocol?
> EtherCAT is a trademark and thus it appears as "type 12" in the IEC
> specification.

Registered at the DPMA are the word marks "ETHERCAT" and "Ethercat".
The "EtherCAT" standard shows in the title "type 12: EtherCAT"
Simply confusing .... adding the R-symbol to "EtherCAT" seems not be 
correct?

--Armin




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