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April 29, 2013 01:35 pm PDT
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When trademark becomes a tool for stealing ourlanguage
My latest Guardian column is "Trademarks: the good, the bad and the ugly," and it looks at why trademark, at its best, does something vital -- but how trademark can be abused to steal common words from our language and turn them into a twisted kind of pseudo-property. Trademark lawyers have convinced their clients that [...]     |
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