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- From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: $800.00!!! For a Cookie?
- Message-ID: <64783@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 19:54:04 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Aug22.022127.9699@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
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- >Of course you realize for Nabisco to win they must prove that the possibility
- >of consumer confusion exists. Which means someone has to walk into a store
- >to buy a $2.95 bag of fig-filled cookies and through confusing product naming
- >leave the store with an $800.00 Personal Digital Assistant. When did Apple
- >sign a reseller agreement with Safeway Food Stores?
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- You're talking about the company that would sue Washington State because they
- happen to have a fruit named the same as Apple.
-
- This happens all the time. Beretta is the name of what 2 famous product? The
- gun manufacturer sued Chevy a few years back. Do you think many people went
- into the gun dealer and walked out with a Chevy by mistake?
-
- Sony sued a restaurant in Baltimore about a year back with the name of "Sony"
- (pronounced "sonny"). The retaurant had that name for a long time, and the
- nickname of the owner was "Sony". I wonder how many people walked in to
- get some lasagna and came out with a 20 inch portable instead?
-