On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 03:29:07PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I believe K-C already lost the ability to enforce Kleenex as a trademark > after uptake made their brand the generic word for "disposable tissue > primarily intended for your nose." Hormel is fighting an uphill battle and > using very specific capitalization to avoid the same thing happening to > their trademark SPAM. Xerox seems to have largely won it's fight against > uptake at this point (that being said, I haven't seen an actual Xerox > copier in years... do they still make 'em?). > Yes. We still have some branded Xerox copiers where I work. The real interesting one to me is the battle Adobe has going to prevent "photoshop" from becoming a synonym for "edit a photograph" or for an edited photograph.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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