Thingamajig isn't registered yet. Looks like someone who's gone overboard in trying to protect his trademark (putting the best face on it). If the term has been used of his sort of golf gadget for years, then I hope he goes after someone who'll fight it out. Mike John Wilson wrote:
This is crazy! These things were used on golf courses long before this guy was around! In WWII factories they were everywhere...a substitute for the thingymajig! ( I hope that the thingymajig isn't trademarked, too). There *is* such a thing as common usage, I believe. Remember the three-pronged, (or was it two?), eye-twisting three dimensional fork of that name?
John W.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Muth" <jamth@mindspring.com> To: <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Cc: <philofractal@lists.fractalus.com> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 9:51 AM Subject: [Fractint] Important Message for Paul and Scott
I received this e-mail an hour or so ago:
Return-Path: <BLIVOT1@aol.com> From: BLIVOT1@aol.com Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 10:35:57 EST Subject: FOTD Website To: jamth@mindspring.com (Jim Muth)
Hello Jim, I am the owner of the federally registered trademark Blivot which is listed in the Library of Congress. I must ask you to eliminate the word blivot on your website, unless you wish to be licensed by my corporation to use my trademark. Usage of a registered trademark and the trademark symbol without expressed written permission is a federal offense. If you wish to use my trademark e-mail me at <blivot1@aol.com> for licensing agreement.
Apparently the non-word 'blivot', which I might have used in a FOTD, is a registered trademark. Since I am not the owner of the offending web site/sites, I pass the letter on here so that Paul and/or Scott can be aware that someone might have his feathers ruffled. I have contacted the sender, telling him that the FOTD web sites are not mine.
BTW, there will be no FOTD for today, December 21.
Jim M.
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