Joe Nicholson wrote in a message to All:

 JN>  Excerpt from Tuesday's business news:

 JN>  Geek Squad was a regional in-home outfit in Minneapolis which 
 JN> installed and serviced computers and periphals.  Best Buy
 JN>  bought out the company and expanded it nationwide to all
 JN>  350 of its stores.

 JN>  Now that Geek Squad is part of the company's national brand,  it
 JN> has begun defending the word "geek" as a trademark.  Last  month
 JN> the firm filed suit in federal court in Boston against  a small
 JN> Massachusetts tech-services company, charging that
 JN>  Geek Housecalls was infringing on Best Buy's trademark.

This kind of nonsense bothers me,  a lot.  If I were involved in the
receiving end of that,  I'd fight it.  Or try to,  anyhow.  I know that the
costs involved in doing so can get way up there mighty quick...

Lawyers!

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