Actually, I should have read your post before entering mine. Correct, the name can be registered as a TradeMark, not copyrighted. (I guess my coffee hasn't kicked in yet.)
It's true that Pentium was the next family of processors after the 486 line, however, I believe Intel chose the name Pentium as opposed to 586 so they could copyright it. (You can't copyright a number.)
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