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- From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons)
- Subject: Re: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark?
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 12:52:05 GMT
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- brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) writes:
-
- >You can to do exactly that. Once a name become used to refer to a
- >generic product, and not a specific brand, the trademark is lost.
- >Kleenex, if it hasn't already happened, will cease to become a
- >trademark when the current term (for lack of a better word) runs
- >out. The same is likely to happen to Xerox, and has happened for
- >many other "brands".
-
- *chuckle*
-
- I doubt Xerox will lose the trademark. After seeing that happen to
- other trademakrs, they began protecting the trademark vigorously but
- politely. IMHO, people ask less and less for "xerox machines" and
- more and more for "copiers".
-
- This summer I was working at a Kodak plant and wanted to copy some
- forms. I made the mistake of asking for a "xerox" machine. From the
- looks they gave me you'd think I asked for the Child Molestation room.
- --
- Steve: #1 of human beings on the Zwicky list
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