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David,<br><br><font face="Arial Unicode MS" size="2">>>Margaret, I thought at first you were 

going to say that Dan Quayle tried to pass a law changing the spelling of 

"potato." (There's a story behind that that you may not be familiar 

with.)<< Please - the spelling of potatoe is the *only* thing we know about Dan Quayle in Europe! Of course you are right that it is legitimate for Google to protect its trademark. But if it had become generic (which I have my doubts about), I would say it should be defined as a generic, just as McJobs shouldn't be given a fake definition for the sake of business interests.

<br><br>But all I meant to say was that this doesn't seem to be the first instance when a lobby has gone so far. <br><br>The Scotland story might be this McMunchies one, in which case a search for McMunchies should produce better confirmation:

<br><a href="http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/press/times_24sep96.html">http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/press/times_24sep96.html</a><br><br>John,<br><br>Maybe they did approach Collins too. All I ever heard about was the attempt by Google to have the verb google spelt Google, with a capital G. By G/googling (!), however, I find more on the subject:

<br><br><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/15/google_brand_abuse/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/15/google_brand_abuse/</a><br><br>Regards<br><br>Margaret Marks<br><br><br>

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