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Re: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark?

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From: Arthur Rubin
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:59
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In <18ns8rINNd81@agate.berkeley.edu> ag@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Gabryelski) writes:

>When I four years old I used the words `Kleenex' and `Band-Aid' to
>refer to generic products of their respected kind.  Neither company
>paid much attention to my obviously wrong use of their trademarked
>brand names.

I thought 'Kleenex' was lost as a trademark, because the company didn't
sufficiently protect it.  I could be wrong, though.
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