Re: Software application copyright opinion

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R. Kaushik) writes:
>The application is not copyrighted as far as I know and the name also
>is not trademearked. But anyway, I want to use a different name.

A work gains United States copyright protection automatically when it
is first fixed in a medium of expression.  A copyright notice is not
required, nor is copyright registration.  It is highly unlikely that
the application is not protected by copyright.

A trademark does not need either state or federal registration, simply
that it be used in commerce.