Message-Id: <199601312056.OAA28005@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 14:50:49 -0600 From: "Kevin M. Randall" <mailto:kmr@NWU.EDU> Subject: Re: Additional URL To: Multiple recipients of list WEBCAT-L <mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
At 01:42 PM 1/31/96 -0330, Charley Pennell wrote:>Actually I believe SIRSI has copyright on the name WebCat, but perhaps
>they will view its use in this context as Kimberley-Clark views common
>usage of the word "Kleenex" or Coca-Cola Corporation the use of "coke".
>The University of Waterloo also has a web-based catalogue (written by an
>engineering student to run against their Geac 9000 catalogue of all
>things) called Webcat.
In the first line, did you perhaps mean to say "...WebCat, *and* perhaps..."? As written, the sentence seems to imply that Kimberley-Clark and Coca-Cola Corporation do not mind common generic use of their trademarks, which I find hard to believe.
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