Re: canadian usage

From: Areff (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 03/22/05 

Date: 22 Mar 2005 01:14:03 GMT

Evan Kirshenbaum wrote:
> "Formica" (another trademarked name, I believe) in the US, at least
> when and where I grew up.

In the late 'Seventies the Federal Trade Commission evidently
unsuccessfully petitioned the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel
the Formica trademark on the grounds that it had become generic and thus
constituted a restraint on competition. 

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I repeat:  Erk, this can't be!

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