--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> wrote: > <snip> > > If it WAS in common use, they couldn't have made it a trademark > > BTW, Transcendental Meditation couldn't be > trademarked in the U.K. and several other > countries precisely *because* it was > considered to be too common a phrase. > (Not an *everyday* phrase, certainly, but > common enough, presumably in spiritual > circles.) >
Well, actually, you're wrong. The Oxford English Dictionary (thanks to my urging) changed its dictionary definition of the term to note that it is trademarked in the US, at least. I know that some countries have different trademark rules, but it is NOT, as far as I know, due to "transcendental meditation" being "too common" that it can't be trademarked in those countries. Lawson
