--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 2/4/06 5:40:39 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Except the TMO owns the name and possession is 9/10's of the law. > > I'm sure somebody will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think > the TMO owns the name Transcendental Mediation Program, but not > Transcendental Meditation. > Any meditation technique that assists one to transcend could be > called transcendental meditation. Seems I heard that some > court had made the TMO ad > Program to the trade mark name for this reason.
Not true. The issue never went to court; the change was dictated by trademark/copyright lawyers consulted by the TMO during the early 70s, who instructed them on the proper use of a trademark. That is, trademarks should always be used as an *adjective*, not a noun. So the TMO is selling the TM program or the TM technique, not TM. One pushes dirt with a Caterpillar tractor, not a Caterpillar. One sneezes into a Kleenx tissue, not a Kleenex. Etc. If one doesn't use the trademark properly, one can lose it. For example, there was once a trademarked brand of toilet called a Crapper, but their trademark went into the crapper. :-) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
