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From: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Band-Aid(TM), etc. and nonstop
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Date: Mon, 19-Sep-83 11:45:50 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 19 11:45:50 1983
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I said this some time ago.  Of course you can trademark a perfectly
normal word like nonstop, and apple and "A-1" etc. etc. etc.

But trademarks are adjectives, NOT nouns, and the trademark only
applies when the adjective describes the type of noun specified in
the proper use of the trademark.   Thus we can have Apple(TM) Computers
and Apple widgits, and also plain old apple pie.
-- 
	Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ont. (519) 886-7304