<html><div>My quick search shows. Can provide the whol article/s if
necessary. </div>
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<div>First in Dow Jones 11/06/1987 </div>
<div>First in New York Times - April 10, 1983 - wedding
announcement for daughter of Joseph A. MacDonald, then (maybe still)
president of Metadata. The first time it is used as a word in its own
right in the Times is 1999.</div>
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<div>At 03:02 AM 6/1/00 -0500, you wrote:</div>
<div>>I think this claim has been decided as frivolous (or it ought to
be). In</div>
<div>>any case, I would like to know if "metadata" existed
as a generic word</div>
<div>>before 1986 (when the trademark was issued)...My colleagues are
sure that</div>
<div>>it did, but maybe Barry P. or others could confirm it.</div>
<div>>------</div>
<div>>Please be advised that our firm represents The Metadata Company
LLC which</div>
<div>>is</div>
<div>>the holder of all rights in the trademark METADATA as applied to
computer</div>
<div>>programs and computer program manuals. Our client's mark
is registered</div>
<div>>as</div>
<div>>U.S. Trademark Registration Nos. 1,409,260 and 2,185,504, copies
of which</div>
<div>>are enclosed herewith. Our client's Registration No.
1,409,360 has</div>
<div>>become</div>
<div>>incontestable as provided by 15 U.S.C. § 1065.</div>
<div>></div>
<div>>It has come to our client's attention that your organization
has</div>
<div>>published</div>
<div>>documents on the Internet in which our client's registered
trademark,</div>
<div>>METADATA, has been misused, and has invited interested entities
to</div>
<div>>download</div>
<div>>a copy of a document with this misused and infringing form of
our</div>
<div>>client's</div>
<div>>mark. We refer specifically to your use at your web [site]
of our</div>
<div>>client's</div>
<div>>mark in your description of an "ANZLIC Metadata Entry Tool
(MET)".</div>
<div>></div>
<div>>Our client has no objection to the use of the two separate
words, "Meta</div>
<div>>Data" or even the hyphenated term "Meta-data" to
describe data about data</div>
<div>>or</div>
<div>>as a title for any software you wish to provide. However,
the single</div>
<div>>unhyphenated term, "METADATA" is a federally
registered trademark in the</div>
<div>>United States which belongs exclusively to our client. We
would</div>
<div>>appreciate</div>
<div>>it if you would provide us with your written commitment that you
will</div>
<div>>ensure</div>
<div>>that your future web site publications and any other
publications do not</div>
<div>>misuse our client's registered trademark, METADATA.</div>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times">Kathleen E. Miller<br>
<i>Research Assistant to William Safire<br>
The New York Times<br>
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"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with
the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the
eye."
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