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Re:Apple Sues Amazon.com, Seeks Order to Stop Use of 'App St... by kenjackson on Monday March 21, 2011 @07:19PM (#2352100)
You probably couldn't trademark the name of a company that made glass windows as "Windows". Nor could you name a product that was a glass window as "Windows". That's the difference.
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Re:Apple Sues Amazon.com, Seeks Order to Stop Use of 'App St... by pyre on Monday March 21, 2011 @11:04PM (#2352883)
I.e. I couldn't name my grocery store "Grocer Store" and then try to trademark the term...
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