Talk:Fixed bill

Trademark Registration
Nicor has until Feb 7, 2010 to respond to the final rejection of their trademark application. Until then, their application is still alive. See | file wrapper for details. Incidentally, the file wrapper has many examples of other fixed bill products which may be good references for this article.

And for the record, I don't particularly care of the article talks about Nicor's application for a trademark or not. I just want to be sure that if it is deleted, it is deleted for proper reasons. --Nowa (talk) 03:06, 6 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Why is it worth including that a company that is not the subject of the article attempted to obtain a registration for the phrase that is the name of the article, and so far has been unsuccessful? TJRC (talk) 03:17, 6 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Mostly for completion and because it may be somewhat controversial (and hence of interest). Nicor is a subject of the article in the sense that it is one of several companies offering fixed bill pricing.  See Commercial Offerings.  When I first put it in, I thought they had successfully registered it, but your input has shown me that the registration is still being prosecuted.  I think that's a good addition to th article and might help others avoid being misinformed as I was.--Nowa (talk) 12:26, 6 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Still, it's a non-event. There are thousands of failed trademark registrations in the PTO website.  There are three for "FIXEDBILL": ; ; .  All four are irrelevant to the subject of the article, which is fixed billing of energy usage.  Just guessing that it may be controversial, or that it satisfied your curiosity on some point, does not make it relevant to the article. TJRC (talk) 23:55, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Can someone explain it further?
I don't get it.

It sounds like I can sign up for a Fixed Bill, agree to pay a set amount, and then I can use an unlimited amount of gas/oil/whatever. A company would be crazy to offer that, so I guess I've misunderstand.

Can someone point out my error? Thanks. Gronky (talk) 10:22, 26 June 2010 (UTC)