Khurram Khan wrote: ...
That's because e-gold is descriptive of exactly ONE company, the one that trademarked both e-gold and egold long ago. If this counts as ignoring your argument, so be it, but your argument flunks the laugh-test IMO!!!
I have to disagree with you Jim, The e-anything and eAnything style
names are more and more becomming generalized terms to describe anything
about the "Anything" subject that is online.
Your argument is about where you think the English language is going. Mine is about where (I think) the current state of the law IS. Sometimes, lawyers ignore English, and sometimes hard cases (like maybe the "Enjoy Cocaine" case*) lead to bad law. If you disagree that the word "e-gold" SHOULD be a trademark, ok, but until now the discussion is/was about what IS a trademark, and e-gold is a trademark of e-gold Ltd.
This is like "Hormel" suing people, because they refer to junk email as "SPAM".
Actually, at least until recently AFAIK, Hormel has been very smart about this issue, allowing sites to call UCE "spam," but not allowing things like a picture of a can of Spam on the same site. Totally logical, and totally analogous to e-gold Ltd. leaving TGC alone but going after trademark violators without the benefit of the magic "th" in front of their egold-uses.
Also, it seems that the term "egold" has been trademarked by "Resource Holdings, LLC". Is that a G&SR affiliated company? (http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=5naie7.5.1)
I don't know. JMR
* The "Enjoy Cocaine" case probably came about because judges in Miami were feeling both impotent & hysterical about the quantity of blow coming into Miami/Dade -- which was so-corrupt Dave Barry suggested outsourcing Metro-Dade government to the mob, so at least they'd have efficient criminals...
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