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From: staplei@planet.mh.dpi.qld.gov.au (Ian Staples)
Subject: Re: Trademarks as adjectives?
Message-ID: <E0E6o3.33u@planet.mh.dpi.qld.gov.au>
Organization: Qld Department of Primary Industries
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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 10:04:51 GMT
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Lisa Doyle <ldoyle@fore.com> writes:

[Pain killer example and other discussion deleted.]

>   ...     My concern is
>that we as writers will be forced into a wordy requirement that goes
>overboard in trying to protect a trademark from becoming generic. You
>know how that legalese stuff can get carried away.

Jeez, for a minute there I was looking around for my biro to reply.
But a few kleenex cleaned up the mess and it seems the nescafe didn't
ruin the PC keyboard after all.  Next time I'll araldite the bloody
handle on!  (Superglue worked with the polaroids okay, so I thought
it would do the job here too.)

Damn!  A quick squiz at the seiko tells me I haven't got time
to followup to this article.  But I was very interested to hear
that you can't use trademarks in professional writing for fear
it might generate too much publicity for the product.  (Maybe 
I've missed the point there.  Or someone has.  :-)  

Cheers,  Ian S.

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