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From: Danielle Bercel, Systems Programming (dbercel@toto.uucp)
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Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 13:22:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 16 13:22:00 1987
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Entered: Sun Information Resources Management  17:28 Tue Sep 15/87
Subject: Re: Silly IBM lawsuit

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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