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Old Aug 17, 2007, 2:50 pm
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Originally Posted by PTravel
AA is going to learn the meaning of a doctrine called "descriptive fair use." The only example given in the complaint was entering the term, "american airlines" as a search. This is not trademark infringement, e.g. I could run an ad that says, "Continental and Northwest are leading American airlines," without infringing any of AA's rights. This should be interesting.
I agree. I think that AMR could be setting itself up for a very expensive lesson here!
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