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This VIL logo was created and posted on February 3, 2001.

        I first used "Info-X" and  "Virtual Information Lab" in my May 16, 2000 research grant letter of intent to Stanford's Bio-X program.  They turned me down on the basis that I am not a Stanford faculty member.  Being a Visiting Scholar does not count.  So these terms Info-X™  and Virtual Information Lab™  are now my personal trademark/service mark property for projects and services dealing with the virtual information domain (vid).  I am putting them on the web on November 4, 2000, seeking investment and grants in projects dealing with virtual information domain (vidic) technologies, including  vidic transducers, software systems, communication systems, nanotechnology actuators, and databases.

        A web search shows that there is already a medical services company named Info-X , which, "founded in 1993, provides coding and compliance solutions to hospitals, physicians, and integrated delivery systems (IDS)."  The URL  info-x.com is owned by Info X Technology Solutions, a computer systems integrator.  The URL info-x.co.uk is home to The Information Exchange.  And Info-X has been used for a number of other information companies, technologies, and URLs.  But to my knowledge, none of them deal with the virtual information domain, so there should be no confusion in that context.

        I believe that the word combination Virtual Information Lab has not been used before, especially since I seem to be the first person to be talking about virtual information in the way that I do.

        So where I go, the Virtual Information Lab goes.  It is looking for a home right now.   I hope that Stanford will reconsider.

New VID interface trademarks and logos form a family.  This family includes any combination of the words VIDnet (tm), VIDlink (tm), VIDport (tm), VIDbook  [the words are trademarks by themselves], a logo consisting of two overlapping circles which form an infinity symbol, the left one of which has an X signifying "into the VID" and the right one of which has a dot signifying "out of the VID" (symbols borrowed from physics magnetic field notation), and an optional "double bubble" enclosing the logo.  The logo is optionally marked "IN" and "OUT".  Following are some sample members of this family.  This family was created and posted on February 3, 2001.  Click on each image to enlarge it.