Re: Trademark question

Subject: Re: Trademark question
From: Janice Gelb <janice -dot- gelb -at- sun -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 08:15:11 +1000

Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
>
> OTOH, when you select existing common
> terms for your product name ("word") your chances of being able
> to register them are pretty slim, and MS apparently isn't terribly
> worried that "Microsoft Word" or "Word 2003" are going to
> become generic terms for word processing software.
>

And yet, somehow they managed to bamboozle the
court into granting them a trademark for "Windows"

-- Janice

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RE: "Appears" vs. "will appear": From: Sarah Bouchier
Trademark question: From: James MacDougall
RE: Trademark question: From: Zuercher, Darrell
Re: Trademark question: From: Gene Kim-Eng

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