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Have you ever noticed how big business often exhibits little common sense? As if they had nothing better to do, Microsoft has sicced the lawyers on a tiny, one-person part-time consulting business. Their attorney said I could no longer use the URL of www.

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

PowerPointPrincess.com – despite the fact that I have used it for half a decade. She said that my use of the name would dilute their trademark, and might confuse people into thinking my site was endorsed by Microsoft.

From what I have read about domain nam

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

s using trademarks, the jury is still out. It is my understanding that for now, it is ok to do so as long as you are not trying to deceive people into thinking your Web site is affiliated with the owner of the trademark, trying to take business away from t

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

at company, etc. My Web site clearly shows that I am actually promoting Microsoft. But I can’t fight them and their plan to cut off their nose to spite their face. Even if the law is on the side of the little guy, who can afford to go up against the Gian

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

?

In reality, the PowerPoint horse has long been out of the barn. Use of the word “PowerPoint“ as a noun (a registered trademark no-no) has become ubiquitous. Every day there are hundreds of articles, ads and announcements saying things such as “We teach

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

PowerPoint” and “Let us design your PowerPoint,” etc. And these without a registered trademark symbol! Some of these commercials are from my competitors. Microsoft cannot get every company, organization, church, and publisher to stop making such statemen

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

s. By preventing me from using the P word in my URL, potential clients will no longer instantly know that I offer PowerPoint® presentation services, and therefore will turn to my competitors. Is this not an example of restraint of trade?

I pleaded for Mi

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

crosoft to reconsider forcing me to give up my name in view of various facts such as:

• I have never had a company with “PowerPoint” in its name. However, I have been known by friends, clients, and students as the “PowerPoint Princess” for about nine year

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

. During that period of time, the moniker has caused no one to think I worked for, with, or represented Microsoft or the PowerPoint application.

• I have held the domain name of www.PowerPointPrincess.com since 2001. Not one person who saw that site duri

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

g all those years ever thought I was connected with Microsoft or the PowerPoint application.

• The alliteration and royalty-based humor inherent in the phrase “PowerPoint Princess” has provided me with instant name recognition, instant clarity as to the ty

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

e of services I offer, and instant implication of my expertise.

• Despite this world of workplace stress, announcing myself as “The PowerPoint Princess” when I call a business almost always results in a chuckle from the receptionist, and entr?e to speak wi

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

h the person I seek.

I would like Microsoft to be supportive of my message and embracing of my work, as I am of Microsoft. Ten years ago I broke out of the bullet-point mold. Since then I’ve been spreading the word about how remarkably flexible and power

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

ul PowerPoint software really is. And consistent with the light-heartedness of the name “PowerPoint Princess,” I also surprise people by showing them that there is a fun, creative side to the PowerPoint application as well. In fact, one of my teaching ven

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

es has been cruise ships. During my class on PowerPoint Photo Album on a recent cruise to Alaska, one student, astonished to see the many special effects I demonstrated, held his head in dismay and said out loud “Why did I buy Adobe?”

It is ironic that ov

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

er the years, I actually have been helping the Microsoft Corporation in ways beyond what it has done to help itself. Examples include giving talks at special education conferences about how PowerPoint can be used in the classroom -- long before any one els

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

was doing it; drafting a curriculum for young children on how to use PowerPoint presentation software as drawing tools; giving lectures, presenting posters and teaching seminars both nationally and internationally on how to use PowerPoint features as tools

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

for people with low vision; teaching classes on the surprising things you can do with PowerPoint Photo Album; demonstrating to scientists how they can use PowerPoint slides to both display and analyze optical illusions; showing scientists how to use PowerPo

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

nt Drawing Tools to create visual stimuli for experiments; and even showing litigation attorneys how to use PowerPoint presentations to win their cases (it’s worked every time).

I am currently developing a course (which has potential to become a book) on m

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

king digital scrapbooks with PowerPoint presentation software. I am also designing a gallery of amazing things you can do with the application. Both will be full of the wonderful, but little-known, uses and special effects that can be made using PowerPoin

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

features.

Despite repeated pleas to the Microsoft attorney, I was forced to stop using the URL WWW.PowerPointPrincess.com on April 17, 2006.

Once again, big business prevails and the little guy fails. The result will hurt everybody – including Microsoft

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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