<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Listers</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">Interesting development.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(240,241,242)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(240,241,242)">I</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">s the term "google" too generic and therefore unworthy of its trademark protection? That's the question before the US Supreme Court.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:20px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="georgia, serif">Words like teleprompter, thermos, hoover, aspirin, and videotape were once trademarked. They lost the status after their names became too generic and fell victim to what is known as "genericide."</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:20px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="georgia, serif">What's before the Supreme Court is a trademark lawsuit that Google already defeated in a lower court. The lawsuit claims that Google should no longer be trademarked because the word "google" is synonymous to the public with the term "search the Internet."</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:20px 0px"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/supreme-court-asked-to-nullify-the-google-trademark/">US Supreme Court asked to nullify the Google trademark</a></font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:20px 0px"><font face="georgia, serif">What are the implications in the Kenyan context?</font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:20px 0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Have you heard guys using Airtel Money saying 'Mpesa me please?' :-)</font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:20px 0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Should governments even think about this? It's ludicrous that we are even discussing this.. :-)</font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:20px 0px"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
Hussein</font></b><br></p></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Principal</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><b>Hussein & Associates</b></font></p><font size="2">

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