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____/ Homer on Monday 18 May 2009 15:12 : \____
> Personally I find the whole concept of trademarks, or any other form of
> Intellectual Monopoly, profoundly unethical. Yes, companies need to
> distinguish themselves in order to be correctly identified, but then one
> might easily say the same thing of /people/ ... should /you/ have to
> change your name just because someone else is also called "Roy"? This is
> why you have a surname, and an address, and a National Insurance (Social
> Security) number, and a PAYE (tax) reference, and a passport number, and
> a drivers license number. People (and companies ... and even their
> products) are identified by more than just a name or a logo.
It is even more bizarre when an English word like "Android" (like "mug"
or "apple") becomes an ownership deserving $90,000,000 in compensation to a
no-namer.
Trademark lawyers are out of their mind
http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000000663
Lots more trademark critique in this Web site.
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