On Sun, Mar 13, 2022, 11:26 AM mick crane <mick.cr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2022-03-13 16:02, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 11:51:03 -0400 > > Cindy Sue Causey <butterflyby...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello Cindy, > > > >> said Google was considering court action over the use of its name as a > > > > Against who? I mean, since the term was used by everyone (for certain > > values of everyone), short of suing the *entire* population, what did > > they expect to achieve? > > > > Hoover never sued anyone for use of their name as a substitute for the > > term vacuuming. Nor did AVO sue for use of their name as a substitute > > for multimeter. > > > > Companies these days seem to be run by idiots. Clever idiots, yes. > > But > > idiots, just the same. :-) > > over 20 odd years ago a friend said his American friends were all > complaining that their children wanted to be copyright lawyers. > The subfield has been ennobled with a loftier name in those past 20 years :-) intellectual property rights law :-) I think John Marshall Law School here in Chicago had the first specialty by that name. But law schools are just commodities after all. Bought, sold, traded :-) It is now the law school of the Univ of Illinois at Chicago :-) mick > > -- > Key ID 4BFEBB31 > >
