On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:22:41PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > * I noticed that there is at least one thing that can be done in the > second hypothesis, but not in the first one: ...
If it matters -- if the trademark has some major significance beyond being the product in question -- then the trademark is probably already generic in that context. It's the trademark holder's responsibility to prevent the trademark from being used in the wrong fashion. If they've created a machine level interface which requires some functionality be associated with the name, and they don't want that functionality associated with the name, that's their problem. -- Raul
