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George Leppla wrote:

"mrtravel" wrote


I always thought that whole "potatoe" thing was a media scam... and one
of the worst teaching ideas of the late 80's.


I don't know what you mean by scam, Dan Quayle really thought that was the
correct spelling.


In some places it is... like at the Potatoe Patch restaurant in Houston, TX
http://www.potatoepatch.com/ Not a very fancy website or a very fancy
restaurant, but the food is real good. I mean... REAL good.

"Every meal includes our pass-arounds: Hot rolls right out of the oven (we
throw em, you catch em and eat em), fried okra, fried green tomatoes, and a
variety of blueberry, strawberry, and chocolate chip muffins."

I like the place so much that I am thinking of having the Sleazy 4 Bon
Voyage Dinner there.




A simple artifact of the legal situation that potatoe patch can be
trademarked because it does not have a common meaning while potato patch
cannot.

Frank F. Matthews writes:

A simple artifact of the legal situation that potatoe patch can be
trademarked because it does not have a common meaning while potato patch
cannot.

Both can be trademarked in theory, but it's easier to trademark
something with an unusual spelling.

For example, Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft when it is
used to identify a type of computer operating system. That doesn't
prevent it from being used in any other context, though.

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On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:38:59 +0100, Mxsmanic wrote:

Frank F. Matthews writes:

A simple artifact of the legal situation that potatoe patch can be
trademarked because it does not have a common meaning while potato patch
cannot.

Both can be trademarked in theory, but it's easier to trademark
something with an unusual spelling.

For example, Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft when it is
used to identify a type of computer operating system. That doesn't
prevent it from being used in any other context, though.

Mx, do you live on Usenet?
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