Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Never ever send Pavel private mail unless you want him to publish it. | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:50:41 -0500 |
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:33:39 CST, "Vlad@geekizoid.com" <vlad@geekizoid.com> said: > It's called a trademark, or a service mark. He does have the right to > defend the name, but YOU had no right to post private mail to a public list.
At least in the US, not only does he have the right to defend the name, he has the *obligation*. If a trademark slips into "common usage", the owner loses it. This has already happened to the floor covering 'linoleum', and is why a certain manufacturer of copying devices gets rather antsy anytime a TV or movie script contains a line like "Let me go xerox this", and then shows any other manufacturer's copier.
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