"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Trademark Insanity
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> | It's bad enough that we have to deal with struggles over the use of
> | trademarks that have become generic terms, like "Xerox" and "Coke", and
> | trademarks that were already generic terms among specialists, such
> | as "Windows", but a new low in trademarking has been reached by the
> joint
> | efforts of Dell and the US Patent and Trademark Office. Cyndy
> Aleo-Carreira
> | reports that Dell has applied for a trademark on the term "cloud
> computing".
> | The opposition period has already passed and a notice of allowance has
> been
> | issued. That means that it is very likely that the application will soon
> | receive final approval.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | In other words, this is a pure example of theft from the public domain.
> | Speakers of English have a term, "cloud computing", which the US
> government
> | is on the verge of privatizing and assigning exclusively to Dell. Other
> | companies providing similar services will not be able to describe what
> they
> | are doing as "cloud computing" anymore than Nike will be able to
> describe its
> | shoes as Reeboks.
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> http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=434
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> It's not just the patent system that's becoming a joke. The politicians
> are too
> easily corruptible.
>
Your right Coke-Cola and Xerox should have their product names placed into
Public Domain, just because every uses their name for a generic product,
right. You going to give those companies their money back, after they
have spent millions building their product placements?
Also Dell won't get "cloud computing", since the NetcCentric tried in the
late 90's to do the same thing.
I do agree with you the patent system needs an overhaul but Software
patients might be on the way out also.
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