At 10:58 AM 4/2/99 , you wrote:
>My own followup already.  Another member of this brand X list says that
>"listserve" can be used, as it is spelled differently.  I believe that
>again the Kimberly Clark folks would object to Kleenexx as well.  L-Soft??
>
>dan

Not that this is the opinion of LSOFT, but my own humble comment,
I would remind you of this situation:

The National Board of Realtors have a copyrighted trademark of:
     REALTOR
but, the term Realitor is a generic widely used for anyone selling
real estate.  I see a corollary here...

                    Bob Wright
         The NOSPIN Group, Inc.
http://nospin.com - http://nospin.org




>At 10:52 AM 4/2/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>I've just informed people on a non-LISTSERV mailing list that they should
>>not use the term referrring to a generic mailing list.  They replied that
>>the trademark is only on it in all upper case, and that using it in lower
>>case is not protected.  I believe this is incorrect, but would appreciate
>>some official wording from LISTSERV regarding this.  After all, I believe
>>Xerox cares, whether you use Xerox, XEROX, xerox, or any other
>>form...they're all protected.
>>
>>Official word I can pass along?
>>
>>dan
>>
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