Comment 58 for bug 15495

Another quick thought

are the words "zip" "zipped" "unzip" etc patented but Winzip in some way?

so to use these words as a generic term for all compression, as apposed to just referring to a zip file (compressed in zip format etc), may mean its possible for Ubuntu to be sued for patent\brand usage etc (I'm not a lawyer but yeah that bollocks stuff).

Windows has obviously paid out over these patent issues so can use "zipped" in there dialogs