"flipper"

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: : : You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense!
: :
: : snip
: : You left off "copyright/trademark owned by the private insurance
: industry".
: :
: : There is no such entity as "the insert name industry." That is
: : merely an arbitrary abstraction sometimes convenient for measuring
: : economic activity of a certain type but that abstraction covers
: : thousands upon thousands of independent, competing, entities across
: : multiple disciplines, depending on the arbitrary selections made by
: : whoever is doing the measuring.
: :
: : An "insert name industry" can't 'own' anything because the "insert
: : name industry" doesn't exist.
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: WHOOOOSH IN COMING.
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: You better duck, then.
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: An aside do a web search on the key words "insurance industry" then for
: grins try the same on "Banking Industry" and "Auto Industry"
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http://industries.hoovers.com/insura...ance_industry: : : :: Try reading what you yourself found. The abstraction "insurance: industry" is, according to that site, "Companies that market and: provide products and services, including life insurance,: property/casualty insurance, surety insurance, title insurance, credit: insurance, mortgage insurance, reinsurance, insurance brokerage, and: risk management.":: Just as I said.:: A "company" exists as a legal entity. An 'industry' does not.:: A company, as a legal entity, can 'own' a trademark. An 'industry: cannot because it doesn't exist past the abstraction.Industry does not? Try CTIA (Cellular Telephone Industry Association) whichhas both a logo and a trademark. There are many more such examples.Some even own copyrights, patents and (gasp) real property. They can't havekids but have been known to propagate.