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Trademark Protection (was: PC as trademark/copyright)
Subject:Trademark Protection (was: PC as trademark/copyright) From:BrYan Westbrook <westbrok -at- HSNP -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 2 Jul 1997 02:37:43 GMT
Only coming through in waves, "J. Shaw" <Jack -dot- Shaw -at- sagus -dot- com> wrote in
bit.listserv.techwr-l:
>but it quickly became "PC" in the trade press and then generic a la
>Kleenex. If Apple and even Sinclair (!) have similar lists, I'd check
Actually, if you would check a few issues of Writer's Digest (or even the side
of the box), you will find that Kimberly-Clark still considers the word Kleenex
an active trademark and takes the appropriate precautions to keep it from
becoming a generic term for facial tissue.
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