Comments on: The Word “Droid” is a Registered Trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd.

You (and Lucasfilm) are incorrect. I saw a film when I was in grade school, long before Star Wars, and it was called Silent Running, this is where Lucas stole his entire idea for Droids and they ...

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"Android", strictly speaking, means "like a male person". "Like a human being" is "anthropoid".

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First known use of word "droid": "Jack shook his head. ‘It's crazy. They're swarming all over Carron City.They're stopping robots in the streets—household Robs, commercial Droids, all of them...

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Kevin Warwick is a roundly-mocked attention seeker mostly known for his hyperbolic claims about perfectly ordinary technology, that he himself had no part in inventing. His "door opening" chip wa...

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When was the earliest use of the abbreviation "droid" for "android"? If someone can find some author who used it, that author (or that author's estate) can sue Lucasfilms. Didn't Isaac Asimov use...

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Android was used in season 3 episode 19 in 1969 Star Trek series

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Obviamente no asesoramos sobre el registro de la marca Droiders, nuestro informe previo habría sido negativo rotundamente, antes de leer la sentencia y a la vista de los expedientes de las marc...

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know what a “droid” is? Of course you do… but before Star Wars came out, you wouldn’t have; it’s not an actual word. You’d also be hard-pressed to find someone today who doesn’t kn...

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is? Of course you do… but before Star Wars came out, you wouldn’t have; it’s not an actual word. You’d also be hard-pressed to find someone today who doesn’t know what a muggle is,

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The famed aphesis of the word android, ‘droid’, was coined by none other than George Lucas and first appeared in Star Wars: A New Hope.  Lucas recently managed to hastily trademark the word...

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