I'm working on a new website which the url contains the technology term "x86" referring to the line of computer processors including the 386, 486, and 586 (also known as Pentium), I would like to know if Intel has a copyright, trademark, or ownership of any type on the term x86?
2006-12-04 10:55:35 · 3 answers · asked by Bradford K 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
No.
Intel found that they could not enforce a trademark on a number, that is why all chips Pentium onwards have been named, not numbered.
2006-12-04 10:57:24 · answer #1 · answered by rchlbsxy2 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
x86 or 80x86 is the generic name of a microprocessor architecture first developed and manufactured by Intel. The x86 architecture has dominated the desktop computer, portable computer, and small server markets since the 1980s IBM PC, running primarily versions of Microsoft Windows and Unix variant operating systems. Although more modern architectures such as PowerPC have challenged the x86 as a replacement for many niches, none have so far supplanted the x86 for its core markets.
The architecture is called x86 because the earliest processors in this family were identified by model numbers ending in the sequence "86": the 8086, the 80186, the 80286, the 386, and the 486. Because one cannot establish trademark rights on numbers, Intel and most of its competitors began to use trademark-acceptable names such as Pentium for subsequent generations of processors, but the earlier naming scheme remains as a term for the entire family.
my answer is NO because it's the name of microprocessors Architecture... but intel the leading company in processors was the first one who got a lot of numbers or microprocessors like
8086 80286 ...... x86 not belong to anyone where intel used to use these terms.
2006-12-04 11:23:39 · answer #2 · answered by Hossam Ahmed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No...That's why Intel came up with the Pentium(R) name...
They tried to trademark it but was rejected.
2006-12-04 10:57:08 · answer #3 · answered by feanor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋