Tim wrote:
Seems to me I-Planet can't trademark a word which has been in usage by many of us for several years. What could they do, demand that we stop using a word we in all likelihood coined? Remove our old writings from the Web?
I don't know about trademark law, and about whether "prior use" invalidates an attempted trademark. It seems unrealistic for them to lay claim to a word someone else invented.
The Kodak disposable camera I have in front of me says "Kodak, Fun and Gold are trade marks." and "(c) EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, 1994" while I have 361 references to Gold, dated 1611, and it was very likely an old word then. These trademark assertions are daft. -- ############################################################## # Antonomasia ant@notatla.demon.co.uk # # See http://www.notatla.demon.co.uk/ # ##############################################################