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>      I object very strongly to the patenting of common terms as names
>of products - and SCAN, SCANNING and other similar words are not
>exclusive to anyone - and should never have been enshrined this way. For
>Heaven's sake, let's have an end to it.
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>Now I feel better.
>Ferg Kyle
   A reader on anohter list-server did a trademark search and
   found that a number of other companies have registered
   "scanner" as a trademark also. I think this one is going to
   die a silent death. Trademarks like patents have to be
   defended to be upheld. No matter how silly the original
   registration was, the fact JPI and about a half dozen
   other companies are not having a free-for-all against
   each other should pretty well negate the issue with
   respect to Matronics.
       Bob . . .
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