William Gibson and the Trademarking of Cyberspace

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Michael Girard, Deborah Gibson, Timothy Leary, Eric Gullichsen, William Gibson. Susan Amkraut obscured behind Deborah From the first days of the web, people have repeated the story that Autodesk trademarked "cyberspace" and Gibson retaliated by trademarking "Eric Gullichsen". So: Autodesk did apply to register Cyberspace, and Gibson really did object. But Gibson trying to trademark Eric Gullichsen was Timothy Leary's prank, propagated until it became accepted history.

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