No. Since Kleenex is trademarked you can do neither in countries that
Kleenex is trademarked in.

Champagne issue is questionable. Its a question of law and from the
articles I have read its somewhat in the WTO's hands now. I can go either
way on it. I personally refer to California Sparkling wines and Sparkling
wines. However that is out of respect.

But it is not misleading in anyway unless a California producer claims his
product is from France but it is not. However it might one day change if
laws change.



"Michael Pronay" > wrote in message
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> "dick" > wrote:
>
> > The biggest issue with the word Champagne is that if France
> > really wants to protect that name---it needs to be registered
> > and defended everywhere so that the name does not become
> > classified as generic. Since the name is not descriptive it
> > likely would be easily defended. Examples are Kleenex Brand
> > Tissues...some refer to a tissue as Kleenex and that company
> > defends their name so that it does not become generic.
>
> There seems to be a minor difference between "some referring to a
> tissue as a kleenex" and others labelling their tissues "kleenex",
> don't you think so?
>
> M.