--- Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.yu wrote:
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 22:08, Jake Nelson wrote:
NAI ;) But, could WIkipedia be trademark at all
as it is generic term?
Noone
can trademark "Cherry Jam" as a name for cherry
jam, could anyone
trademark "Wikipedia" as a name for a Wiki
encyclopedia?
Yes. You already said what the generic is: "Wiki
encyclopedia". Anyone can
say they're one of those. Wikipedia is not
generic.
It just seems as obvious abbreviation to me.
Xerox is also an abbreviation for xerography, but it's still a trademark. (I think the fact that the word 'xerox' is in common use is irrelavent to this analogy) LDan
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