Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Language Log on "cloud computing"

A linguistics professor on the allowance of Dell's claimed trademark for "cloud computing," which I agree is descriptive at best without secondary meaning, and probably generic. The linguist at the end comes close to Lisa Ramsey's argument that descriptive trademarks shouldn't be registrable, though I wonder what he'd think of Coca-Cola.

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