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Re: SUO: Re: *Date 20 Jan 2002


> Jay Halcomb wrote:
> 
> Be careful, Jon Awbrey. You're verging upon copyright infringement
> below.
> RRRAUL (www.rrraul.org) long ago copyrighted the acronym, FOGs.
> 
> http://www.rrraul.org/fogs.html.

I typed FOGS into Google and got 44,200 hits, including the following:

  Friends of Girl Scouting

  Gesellschaft fuer Forschung und Beratung im Gesundheits- und
  Socialbereich

  Friends of the Gardens

  Friends of Glusburn School

  Faculty of Graduate Studies, UBC

  Falling Object Guard Structure

and many others.

Bottom line:  You can define any acronym you please for use within
a document.  The restrictions on trade marks, etc., apply only to
more general use in unrestricted circumstances.

John Sowa