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: Re: Is it legal to name a character in a story after a disguised trademark? I'm writing a sci-fi book series. As a true nerd, I want to use some characters to "do homage" to famous scientists,

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Don't forget this precedent: the HAL 9000 computer in Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey was formed by transposing the letters of IBM down one letter in the alphabet:

H <- I
A <- B
L <- M

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