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- Subject: Re: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark?
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- From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
- Date: 10 Sep 92 19:59:19 GMT
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- In <18ns8rINNd81@agate.berkeley.edu> ag@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Gabryelski) writes:
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- >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.
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- I thought 'Kleenex' was lost as a trademark, because the company didn't
- sufficiently protect it. I could be wrong, though.
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