> But one interesting thing: we have words like "ingatlan" (real
> estate) and "Budapest" (actually our capitol) that cannot be
> registered in Hungary, as they are "common words".
Sure you can! F.i. for food, "Budapest cheese", or so, you just
cannot register it for city information systems, f.i. This common law
in many countries, I would expect it in Hungary to be similar.
So what the
> smart guy does is that he goes to Germany and puts these names
> under protection there, where they don't mean anything
>
No, see above, we *do* know Budapest ;-) However, the other word,
yes, this could be registered for any class.
Kai
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