No Comments »My sister Airlie is a law student @ the U of Ottawa. She wrote me about Google & Intellectual Property after reading my Wild Rose D-Tox/Cleanse post –
“In intellectual property we’ve been discussing loss of trade-mark due to use of a word by the public that makes it generic. One example was the word “google”. It is a made up name so it has quite a lot of protection (like Kleenex and Thermos), but google is worried that people will start to use their word as a way of searching the entire internet, which would result in loss of their trade-mark (read: loss of moola!). Arguably, you did so in your blog when you said “I could Google for a better resource”. Apparently a professor down in the states entered the word googling in his online dictionary to mean search the internet. Google wrote him a nasty letter that told him the correct way to use their trade-mark.
Incorrect: I googled that hottie I met at the party last Friday.
Correct: I used google to search for the name of the hottie I met at the party last Friday.
Xerox the article if you like it.
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Loading ...It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. –Oscar Wilde
I like to be both. Take the BBC’s Mind of a Millionaire test. I scored 21.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...In London, England asking for a washroom is the same as asking is for a place to wash.
To me online registration form means fill out a form online and click “OK”. To the Association of Ship Brokers and Agents it means emailing a Word document which I print out, sign and send back by snail mail.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I walked around for ages last night looking for a mailbox near my house getting madder and madder each time I came to a corner without a mailbox! Where are all the mailboxes!? Nope, I wasn’t going to wait until the next day to post it at work; I want to post it now!
I almost ranted and raved all night long about the stupidity of our mail system and the uselessness of the Canada Post website…. until Cassandra thankfully took my letters with her on her way to the video store.
So, why (the hell) doesn’t Canada Post publish the locations of their mailboxes??
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...“I’ve logged a lot of miles and downed a lot of donuts…little chocolate donuts.” The Wild Rose 12-day herbal cleanse flushes out all donuty goodness. The diet is strict but manageable. Some recipes to supplement the rice-cakes and almond butter — Wild Rose D-Tox / Cleanse recipes
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Crazy ways to lose your computer data — some by accident, some by stupidity and some by rage….
| TOP 10 DATA DISASTERS |
| › Laptop shot in anger › PC thrown out the window to destroy evidence before police arrived › Laptop fell off a moped and was run over by lorry › Laptop dropped in bath while doing company accounts › Stolen PCs rescued after three weeks in a river › Red wine spilt on laptop over dinner › Server rescued after running unchecked 24/7 for years under layers of dust and dirt › Computer thrown against a wall › Latte-covered laptop rescued › Laptop left on car roof as owner drives off |
Source: Odd mishaps cause computer grief. Courtesy of the BBC.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...“With great power comes great responsibility” — Spiderman’s Uncle
“All you have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to you” — Gandalf
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