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Old 11-17-2010, 07:29 AM   #10
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Well, according to the Rollerblades (or rather, Rollerblades brand of inline roller skates) people, you'd have to stab someone with a broken Guinness brand of Irish dry stout bottle. The example they used was something like prohibiting writing "John was Rollerblading".

I didn't say it made a whole lot of sense.
There is an enormous difference between the way that a company might like you to use their trademark, and the way that people actually do use it in the real world. As I've said in previous messages, these are ordinary words, and provided you aren't using them for "purposes of trade", they can be used in their normal everyday language sense without issues.
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