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  2. From: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  4. Subject: Re: pop &c.
  5. Message-ID: <Bxu3vB.89u@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 17 Nov 92 00:25:59 GMT
  7. References: <BxM2FF.EB5@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov13.080307.556@black.ox.ac.uk> <Bxnx3p.3w1@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov13.202010.4662@news.columbia.edu> <baron.58.721929582@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
  8. Sender: cnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk (UseNet News Admin)
  9. Reply-To: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
  10. Organization: Do they make a washing powder called Caliban Automatic?
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  13. In article <baron.58.721929582@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> baron@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Dennis Baron) writes:
  14. >Trademark law, by the way, is insane, and trademark decisions in the
  15. >courts often seem whimsical, as the above should demonstrate.
  16.  
  17. So when people say "Xerox" or "Sellotape" or "Hoover" they're referring
  18. to a brand name, but when they say "Webster's" they mean "dictionary".
  19. As you say, insane and whimsical.
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  21. \/ o\ Paul Crowley pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk \  /
  22. /\__/ "I'm the boy without a soul"   \/
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