RE: Don't you dare say "levitator!"

["Shapiro, Mark" <mshapiro@Exchange.FULLERTON.EDU>]

	I guess I better be careful to use "levitation device" instead.
Wouldn't want to be sued by these -----!

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	William Beaty [SMTP:billb@eskimo.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 01, 1998 9:22 AM
> To:	vortcor-list@eskimo.com
> Subject:	Don't you dare say "levitator!"
>
>
> > You have a new entry in your guestbook:
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > On your home page, as you scroll down and get to Some Maglev Links,
> > Under *NASA LARGE GAP levitator.  Please note that the Term
> Levitator is
> > TRADEMARKED by Superconductive Components Inc.  Thank you.  Bryan
> > Jeffries <bjeffries@SuperconductiveComp.com> Columbus , Oh USA -
> > Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 23:06:12 (PDT) 
> > ------------------------------------------------------
>
> Quite a reprehensible action of an out-of-control legal department,
> wouldn't you say?  
>
> If you dare to tell your students that your superconductive
> demonstration
> is a "levitator", watch out, they might come after you!  Next I
> suppose
> that Microsoft will warn us against using their trademarked term
> "software", and Nike will try to make you put (tm) after all uses of
> the
> word "swoosh." 
>
> Anyone besides me want to send a complaint to these people?
>
> Besides bjeffries@superconducitvecomp.com, 
> I find these addresses elsewhere:
> sales@superconductivecomp.com, jrgaines@superconductivecomp.com
>
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