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A Ninth Circuit panel <strong><a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/9CA-Google-Trademark.pdf">ruled</a></strong> Tuesday that just because the public has committed “genericide” by appropriating the name Google as its verb for “search the internet” does not mean the tech giant’s trademark of its name deserves to be canceled.

SAN FRANCISCO – A Ninth Circuit panel ruled Tuesday that just because the public has committed “genericide” by appropriating the name Google as its verb for “search the internet” does not mean the tech giant’s trademark of its name deserves to be canceled.

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