Well, just when you get to the point of the Director of the U. S. Patent and
Trademark Office who said, at the end of the Nineteenth Century, that the
office should be shut down because "everything had already been invented,"
along come more technical means for today's problems:

http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/17914.html

The search engine "ferrets" (apologies to WebFerret) out company logos
on the internet -- a tool for anyone who wants to police trademarks.

Bill Lovell

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