Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!pro-exchange.cts.com!sschneider From: sschneider@pro-exchange.cts.com (The RainForest BBS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple II Market Share Message-ID: <20258.apple.info-apple@pro-exchange> Date: 3 Mar 90 00:04:05 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: message from gbrown@tybalt.caltech.edu Being used as a generic term does not make it one... As long as Xerox Corporation tries to teach that Xerox is NOT a generic term and legally enforces its trademark vigoriously, it will never =LEGALLY= be a generic term.. as Aspirin and Kleenex are... they -are- such because they did NOT adequately defend their trademark. Thank you in advance for your understanding. Steve +===========================================================================+ | UUCP: crash!pro-exchange!sschneider COMPU$ERVE : 75166,2544 | | ARPA: crash!pro-exchange!sschneider@nosc.mil GENIE : sschneider | | INET: sschneider@pro-exchange.cts.com APLINK.PE : | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The RainForest @ 305-434-4927 / PO Box 841422, Pembroke Pines, Fl, 33084 | +===========================================================================+