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The Chicago Manual of Style has a biglong blurb about it. Quite detailed and
explicit.
Anyone have a web page with the facts? It's all based on public law, after
all.
Still, will Anything Bad happen to you if you don't comply? In the press you
don't see: "Mr Gates, of Microsoft (R) said Windows (R) was 'the bee's
knees'".
I don't see the difference between that and a user manual, but then again,
maybe that's why I'm not a lawyer.