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Letter: Free trademark

Published 31 October 2007

From Halina Stanley

Could it be that the Famous Web Search Engine knows more about web searching than does Feedback, who is mystified at its suggestion that “free” is a trademark (22 September)? In France we have the large internet provider www.free.fr and any audio server fronted by “free” would, around here, be assumed to be theirs.

• We searched for UK, EU and world trademarks at www.ipo.gov.uk, but free.fr didn’t show.

Revel, Isère, France

Issue no. 2628 published 3 November 2007

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