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Article #8386Re: Purchasing a Hierarchy
From: Joe Buck
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1994 02:11
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1994 02:11
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marym@Sun.COM (Mary Morris) writes: >I came across a web page that states the following: >"Internet Marketing Inc. has bought the worldwide rights to act as the >exclusive marketing company of the soon to be unveiled market.* hierarchy >(market.finance.*, market.consumer.*, market.internet.* ... you get the >picture) of the Usenet area of the Internet." Internet Marketing Inc. is free to set up this hierarchy if they wish to. But so is anyone else. I suppose they could try trademarking "market." (forcing competitors to use some other name). -- -- Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> Posting from but not speaking for Synopsys, Inc. ***** Stamp out junk e-mail spamming! If someone sends you a junk e-mail ***** ad just because you posted in comp.foo, boycott their company.
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