Stanford officials who insist the government can't copyright the venerable university's name have countered with an offer that would give federal officials a royalty-free "perpetual" license to use the Stanford and SLAC names.
"SLAC's record is pretty distinguished, and with the university's offer of a license to use the Stanford name, what more do they need?" said Burton Richter, SLAC's former director and one of the Nobelists who won his prize there. "I'm really bewildered."
I wonder if DOE already got a trademark for the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab? I would imagine it doesn't have the same issue here since "Princeton" is a city, unlike "Stanford".
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Huh, I get my mail delivered to Stanford, CA, 94309, so I think it's a city too!
One of my friends who works there submitted the new name "SLAC Linear Accelerator Center", a nice recursive acronym. I think it's the best they'll get if the DOE doesn't accept this new deal.
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