On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 04:10:08PM +0100 or thereabouts, Wesley Darlington wrote:
> Howdy,
>> On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:35:45AM -0400, Ruairi Newman wrote:
> > True but it's really up to you who you want to persecute over use of
> > your trademark.
>> ISTR reading that under american law if one doesn't vigorously defend
> one's trademark, one may lose it. I take this to mean that one has
> to persecute *everybody*. (*)
BTW, is everyone's use of "persecute" rather than "prosecute" simply a
Freudian slip or are we all suffering from a prosecution complex about this
patents thing?
BBTW, you wouldn't *believe* the rampant apathy I'm being greeted with on
the patents issue.
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