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["Conrad N." <44335@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Comment #72 by Jean-Yves Lefort on 2008-10-05:
> I own the "Mail Notification" trademark. Shipping a modified
> MN version that I have explicitly been disagreeing with is 
> called trademark infringement. If someone wants to legally
> distribute such a MN version, he has to change the name of
> the application.

Aside from everything else, please disregard this particular nonsense.
It might be preferable to not take the same name to preclude
misunderstandings or out of respect, but there is no such thing as
trademark protection of generic names. If you want to protect your
trademark, choose a distinctive name.

Anyone interested, look up "trademark distinctiveness", "descriptive
marks, and "generic marks".

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