Boing Boing: Google's trademark counsel sending out dumb lawyer-letters over "to google"

Wednesday, February 26, 2003

posted by Cory Doctorow at 08:38:28 AM permalink | Other blogs' comments

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Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	Wednesday, February 26, 2003 Google's trademark counsel sending out dumb lawyer-letters over "to google" Google's trademark counsel has begun sending lawyer-letters to people who use "to google" as a verb, asking them to to take down or revise such references. I've googled many factoids about this in the past, being the good blogger that I am, and printed them out so I could xerox them for my friends. That's all I have to say for now, since I have to run out and buy some kleenex and aspirin, and trademark lawyers can kiss my ass. Link Discuss (via Kottke) posted by Cory Doctorow at 08:38:28 AM permalink \| Other blogs' comments Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email: