"For your client's trademark to be registerable under the Trade Marks Act, it must have sufficient 'inherent adaptation to distinguish in the marketplace'.
"In other words, it cannot be a term that other traders with similar goods and services would need to use in the ordinary course of trade."
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"Linux is a computer system and its kernel."
Well, I guess Richard Stallman will choke on this and me with him. Linux is indeed a kernel, but certainly not a computer system !
Bizarre, really, that Wikipaedia says this. I'll check that soon...
Till then,
Cheers