Ketchup and other legal stuff

Subject: Ketchup and other legal stuff
From: Tim Altom <taltom -at- IQUEST -dot- NET>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 06:35:42 -0600

At 12:35 PM 11/18/97 +0200, you wrote:
>The American Heritage dictionary says that the spelling "ketchup"
>has been around since 1711. The Heinz bottle does claim the
>word as a trademark. Somebody may have been confused by
>the circle-U symbol that means the stuff is kosher.
>
>It may be true, however, that "no other ketchup tastes like Heinz."
>
Well, I checked my bottle of Brooks ketchup, and there's no trademark claim
on there. Darn. Another loss of a great American lawsuit.

BTW, the other night I surfed around and fell onto some informational white
papers about the famous McDonald's Hot Coffee Case. There are lots more
details there than I thought there were. It wasn't as silly as the media
made it sound. As a knowledge transfer specialist myself, I found the
problem intriguing: how do you KNOW you're getting the straight story, even
from a SME? We can be put in the same position as the reporters who couldn't
or didn't check facts.

Tim Altom
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