John Colby
jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu May 29 08:27:28 CDT 2003
I think the lawyers are hard at work trying to convince the world that they need more lawyers. John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Gustav Brock 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