Re: trademarks

**j* e* m* s* <h*@sbcglobal.net>**

When a reporter, newspaper, magazine, etc., misuses a trademark, you 
hear from the mark holder. Using words like Frisbee, Kleenex and 
Dumpster, for instance w/o caps as some generic word for a plastic 
disk, tissue or trash bin, is one of the fastest ways to get a letter.

jems

>  > Newspapers and magazines are not legally required to use the trademark
>>  symbol, so I am not sure what "no right to publish" means here either,
>>  Jane. There are other perfectly acceptable ways--capitalization and so
>>  on--to indicate a trademarked name.
>
>What I said is that they must respect trademark designations.  I never
>said anything about using trademark symbols.  I was wrong to say that
>they have a legal requirement to use them, though.
>
>
>
>Chris
>
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