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To: Red Badger

Up next, Microsoft will sue for everybody who uses the word “Word”, “Excel”, or “Office” like nobody else ever used those words before Micro$oft did.


4 posted on 03/04/2022 1:33:22 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

You don’t understand the way this works—clearly.

You can’t make a software document editor and call it word. But you can make a Car and call it Word if you like.


7 posted on 03/04/2022 1:40:33 PM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Tell It Right

Well The Ohio State University did try to trademark the word ‘the’.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-state-university-trademark-the-osu-cant-trademark-the-word-the-patent-office-says/#app


13 posted on 03/04/2022 3:17:59 PM PST by buckalfa (America is the only nation where a person can be both fat and poor at the same time.)
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