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Subject:[Fwd: Re: Trademarks as modifiers, not nouns] From:Matt Ion <mion -at- DIRECT -dot- CA> Date:Thu, 1 Jun 1995 03:39:20 EDT
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> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 95 03:24:21 EDT
> From: mion -at- direct -dot- ca (Matt Ion)
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> Subject: Re: Trademarks as modifiers, not nouns
On Thu, 1 Jun 1995 10:59:11 IDT you wrote:
> The issue has come up in real life with trademarks like Kleenex,
> Thermos, and Zipper.
Don't forget Xerox, Velcro, Aspirin (and a wide range of other drugs and their
generic counterparts)... wasn't "P.C." originally an IBM trademark?
There's an amusing text file floating around about Microsoft plans to
copyright the name "BOB" :-)
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