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- From: dj@godot.co.uk (DJ Walker-Morgan)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark?
- Message-ID: <BuF5LG.Dny@micromuse.co.uk>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 14:58:27 GMT
- References: <18ns8rINNd81@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article 18ns8rINNd81@agate.berkeley.edu, ag@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Gabryelski) writes:
- >When I four years old I used the words `Kleenex' and `Band-Aid' to
- >refer to generic products of their respected kind. Neither company
- >paid much attention to my obviously wrong use of their trademarked
- >brand names.
- >
- >Both companies still have trademark rights to the names (albeit
- >possibly on shakey ground).
-
- Well, try these, Jacuzzi and Biro. Both names which have lawyers in the UK scouring
- the press for their "misuse".
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