Mitsules, Mark
mitsules_ms at nns.com
Thu May 29 08:39:01 CDT 2003
>Maybe - or maybe not: Xerox did not. Actually, IIRC, Xerox was discussed in that article as a company who had achieved their goal by aggressively doing the same thing. Mark -----Original Message----- From: Gustav Brock [mailto:gustav at cactus.dk] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 9:22 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: OT: google as a verb Was: RE: [AccessD] Crosstab in Oracle Hi Mark >>However, if you google on Oracle SQL crosstab you'll find some hints. > Just an observation to something I read a few months back...no > judgment on these statements one way or the other. > Apparently, Google's lawyers are hard at work trying to maintain > "Google" as a trademark. I think the article was discussing the > possibility that if Google were to become too successful, people would > start using Google as a verb. At that point, Google could lose their > trademark much like aspirin did years ago. Maybe - or maybe not: Xerox did not. /gustav _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com