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From: mark@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Band-Aid(TM), etc.
Message-ID: <2615@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 17-Sep-83 15:47:15 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 17 15:47:15 1983
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The last issue of Datamation (Sept. '83) had a letter to the editor
protesting the use of the term "nonstop" in an article on
fault tolerant computing.  The author of the letter was a company
lawyer claiming "nonstop" is a trademark of the company.
The editors reply was that nonstop had been in the dictionary long 
before this company came into existence, and (implicitly) if they 
thought they could trademark a common word they were mistaken.
Sure enough, "nonstop" is right there in my Webster's 2nd College
Edition, uncapitalized, meaning "without a stop".  

If this company really has a U.S. Registered Trademark on the term
"nonstop", was someone sleeping at the registration office or what?
-- 
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