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- From: dcb@kopachuk.uucp (David Breneman)
- Subject: Re: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.194604.3986@kopachuk.uucp>
- Organization: Tacoma Screw Products, Inc.
- References: <716101727.10647@zooid.guild.org>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:46:04 GMT
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- In article <716101727.10647@zooid.guild.org> ron@zooid.guild.org (Secret Mud) writes:
- >
- >Kleenex (and Xerox) may be holding on for the moment--but only by sternly
- >policing any generic usage of their trademark. A large number of common words
- >used to be trademarked, but lost that protection when they entered into
- >common usage for any similar generic product: Dry Ice, Escalator, Brassiere,
- >mimeograph, and zipper--all of these used to be trademarked names.
-
- Also Phonograph, which was a trademark owned by Thos A Edison Inc. to
- describe their line of talking machines. Talking machine was the
- generic term up until sometime after the turn of the century.
- Gramophone was also used generically in the US around the turn of the
- century (and still is in Britain). It was a trademark of the
- Berliner Talking Machine Company (a predicessor of Victor, as mentioned
- in my previous post). The "phonograph" in "His Master's Voice" is a
- Berliner Gramophone.
-
- Other examples: Videotape (Ampex), Teletype (Teletype Corp), Blender
- (Waring Corp), Flipper (on a pinball machine -D. Gottlieb & Co.), etc...
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