What I learned today doing research into the proper care and feeding of trademarks, from http://www.taser.com/legal/pages/trademarks.aspx: ” “TASER” is one of several trademarks of TASER International, Inc. … TASER is also an acronym for “Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle.” ” Gee whiz!
nkcmike
May 30, 2008 at 11:19pmAnd they don’t want the word used as anything other than a proper noun. They particularly don’t want it used as a verb!