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Xref: sserve gnu.misc.discuss:6173 comp.org.eff.talk:8991 comp.unix.bsd:4804 comp.os.mach:2098 Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!hela.iti.org!wotan.iti.org!scs From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) Subject: Re: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark? Message-ID: <scs.716043125@wotan.iti.org> Sender: usenet@iti.org (Hela USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: wotan.iti.org Organization: Industrial Technology Institute References: <1992Sep2.220141.17026@nntp.hut.fi> <1992Sep4.234429.18294@newsgate.sps.mot.com> <Bu5DBu.IA6@rahul.net> <1992Sep8.135040.5243@pegasus.com> <BRUNER.92Sep8172455@sp15.csrd.uiuc.edu> <18jg8uINN888@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Distribution: inet Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 12:52:05 GMT Lines: 21 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