All,
Lincoln Stein took this up with O'Reilly where he has some contacts and I
include the below posting he made to the worm newsgroups of the reply from
O'Reilly:
=========== from Lincoln ==============================================
Hello All,
I am posting this at the request of Lorrie LeJeune, the O'Reilly
editor responsible for the Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills
book.
Lincoln Stein
> forwarded letter follows
To the C. elegans community:
Many of you have noticed a line in the frontmatter of Developing
Bioinformatics Computer Skills claiming that O'Reilly has trademarked the
association between the image of C. elegans and the word bioinformatics.
When the association between topic and animal is unique, we usually insert
this line into all of our books to keep other publishers from swiping our
critters, many of which are in the public domain.
In the case of Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills the trademark line
was inserted automatically by production, and I didn't notice it in page
proofs. I would certainly have deleted it had my eyes been working properly
the day I reviewed the frontmatter. Images of C.elegans have been
associated with scientific research long before we began publishing books
in this area, and in fact, I based the cover image on a photo from Leon
Avery. (He is credited in the backmatter.)
The trademark line will be removed starting with the next
printing. O'Reilly has no intention of enforcing any trademark between "C.
elegans" and the word "bioinformatics." Please accept our apologies.
Sincerely,
Lorrie LeJeune
Editor,
O'Reilly & Associates
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