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Subject: Re: band-aids
Message-ID: <263@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-May-84 18:38:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 21 18:38:52 1984
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> While putting a band-aid on my poor blistered toe yesterday,
> I noticed the following intricate pattern on the back of the band-aid:
> 
> Band-Aid is a trademark. Band-Aid is a trademark. Band-Aid is a trademark.
> d-Aid is a trademark. Band-Aid is a trademark. Band-Aid is a trademark. Ba
>
> Getting desperate, aren't they?
> 						-Jack Applin
> 						 (hplabs!hp-dcd!jack)

Yea.  You know why they're getting desperate?  Because the trademark
law is moronic.  Tell me why it makes sense for a company to work hard
to produce a product so prevalent that its name becomes a household
word and then have that trademark taken away.

I know.  It's for the consumer's protection and well-being.  Like the
breakup of the Bell System.  Make me barf.

	Andy Tannenbaum   Masscomp Inc  Westford MA   (617) 692-6200 x274