DOTTED LINE WHICH APPEARS

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
-------------- BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY AND FRANCHISE DIRECTORY	PSA, INC.	5400 S. Carson Street, Site 134B Carson City NV 89701	The dotted line which appears in the mark designates a generic geographic location which varies with the publication.;PERIODIC PUBLICATIONS FEATURING INFORMATION REGARDING VARIOUS BUSINESSES;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

An apparatus includes a memory which stores therein data of a dotted-line pattern, a unit which identifies successive pixels on a straight line to be drawn with respect to each line of a plurality of straight lines that are drawn side by side, a pattern reference unit which refers to the data of a dotted-line pattern while changing a reference address for accessing the memory in accordance with a slope of a dotted line to be drawn, and a drawing unit which draws the successive pixels in response to the data of a dotted-line pattern referred to by the pattern reference unit.