Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yea, imagine what that slippage into public domain-dom would do for the stock price! :( Kit -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+leicagalpal=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+leicagalpal=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Brian Reid Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 3:53 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Google and Lots of Other Nouns Have Become Verbs > Brian: If you don't mind talking about Them, do you know when "Google" > started being used as a verb? Google spends a lot of money trying to prevent "google" from being used as a verb. Their attorneys believe that the NPR piece mentioned was the first, but there were several at that time, including a reference in Sex and the City, the first on mainstream television. Every time any business uses the name "Google" incorrectly, they get a letter from one of Google's attorneys asking them to stop doing this. Trademark law is fairly specific about how Google must behave in order to keep its trademark from slipping into the public domain. Imagine if Microsoft could offer "googling by Microsoft: it's much better than the other brands" _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information