<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">crusaderchuck55 wrote:</div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Aparently Born Aviation Products owns the patent on the phrase.?? ??T</span></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Apparently they are the 2nd owner of the trademark. <div class=""><a href="https://forums.jetcareers.com/threads/remove-before-flight-copyrighted.83907/" class="">https://forums.jetcareers.com/threads/remove-before-flight-copyrighted.83907/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">I agree with the comment that it probably wouldn't hold up in court, given common usage. Think kleenex and dry ice and others. But, I wouldn't pay a lawyer to fight it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kent McLean</div><div class="">1956 Austin-Healey 100 BN2</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>