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Jim <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Mark Kent wrote:
>
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> http://www.adobe.com/misc/trade.html#photoshop
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| The Photoshop trademark must never be used as a common verb or as a
>>>| noun. The Photoshop trademark should always be capitalized and should
>>>| never be used in possessive form, or as a slang term. It should be used
>>>| as an adjective to describe the product, and should never be used in
>>>| abbreviated form.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> (Examples follow)
>>>
>>> http://www.adobe.com/misc/trade.html#photoshop
>>
>> Maybe photoshop should never be used, which would get around all of the
>> above problems in one single, easy, move.
>>
>
> it's become a generic, like Windows (much to the chagrin of Microsoft who
> think they own the word!). If it were fought in court, then I don't think
> Adobe would have a leg to stand on. Again, much like Microsoft when they
> had their day over the "Windows" trademark (endgame of which was the judge
> saying, and I quote, "You cannot put a trademark on a word that has been in
> use longer than you have been alive and expect people to take you
> seriously.")
>
> I swear, I heard the word "Photo-shop" when I was like, six? My mother used
> it to refer to the drop-in photo lab at Boots The Chemist, which has been
> in existence since like, forever. Well, since 1849, when Jesse Boot opened
> a pharmacy here in Nottingham.
Aha - now I know where you're from :-) Well timed for the invention of
photography, of course.
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