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From: dbercel@toto.uucp (Danielle Bercel, Systems Programming)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Silly IBM lawsuit
Message-ID: <16502@toto.uucp>
Date: Tue, 15-Sep-87 17:28:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: toto.16502
Posted: Tue Sep 15 17:28:30 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 00:39:07 EDT
References: <358@cpro.UUCP> <216700025@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Reply-To: dbercel@sun.UUCP (Danielle Bercel, Systems Programming)
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In article <216700025@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> nomad@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU writes:
>
> A trademark is no longer a trademark when the name becomes "genneric" 
>for the product. Kleanex (sp?) is one example, (and I think Xerox is
>another, but I won't swear to that one - please no flames).
>   When everyone asks for something by a trademark name instead of the 

Xerox places a number of ads in writer magazines to remind us that
Xerox is a trademark and that when we say Xerox we should really say
copier, etc.       

danielle


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