[Milsurplus] Dating the term "Walkie Talkie"

[WA5CAB@cs.com]

Joe & Group,

I didn't know Nextel was trying to do something like that, but unless they 
hire a crooked lawyer and buy a crooked judge, Nextel has no claim on either 
term.  I'm pretty sure that Galvin (Motorola) copyrighted both of them in the 
40's.  Certainly both terms appeared in their ads, as well as in various TM 11's 
of the period, plus in at least one post-war QST piece written by a Galvin 
employee.  And then there are all of the 50's CB ads using Walkie-Talkie for 
Handi-Talkie.

In a message dated 8/19/2003 5:01:22 PM Central Daylight Time, 
wa9msd@ggnet.net writes: 
> Is this in response to Nextel's attempt to copyright the term
> "Walkie-Talkie"?
> 

Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
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