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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!uknet!axion!micromuse!godot!dj 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> Sender: news@micromuse.co.uk Reply-To: dj@godot.co.uk Organization: MicroMuse - The SPARC dudes Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: godot 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". --- ============================================================================ dj@micromuse.co.uk |"In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune Voice +44-71-352-7774 | but this is reality so give some room" Fax +44-71-351-7834 | (Sir) William Bragg ------------------------+--------------------------------------------------- Non-standard Disclaimer : "I didn't do it, it wasn't me, I wasn't there"