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The answer is because there is/was a legal framework that existed to deal with bona fide injuries and harm inflicted.

On the one hand, a factual recitation of a third-party direct quote in a bona-fide journalistic piece almost certainly isn't a trademark violation.

I'm an oncologist, and with no conflicts of interest I can assure you these drugs are a bona fide breakthrough.

If you have all the bona fides (top-tier law school/clerking opportunities, high-paying specialty, good track record of winning cases) you can command an astronomical hourly rate.

I know he's a bona-fide Canadian because he pronounces it 'aboot.' He's pretty enterprising.

They're a bona fida corporation with its own agenda.

Los Angeles is a bona fide schizophrenic.

Just to establish bona fides: I ran a Freenix-competitive Usenet server in the mid 90s (we were competitive because we independently co-invented the INN history cache).

(And in general only supported by anecdotal evidence at best.) The author uses its merely to identify his personal bona-fides to his intended demographic.

A bona fide avian scientist was saying what I already knew to be true about birds, and about chickens in particular, in forthright language that could be quoted without ellipses.

Nope; with one exception, the Z80-family calculators are still run by real, bona-fide Z80s (or, in the case of the new TI-84 Plus CE, an eZ80).

You would think that a scientist who worked in an especially contentious field, with well-funded political enemies and huge amounts of money at stake, would have taken extraordinary measures to establish his bona fides.

Screaming "breaking news" at readers all day for stories like "Andy Murray gets married" is absurd and it devalues bona fide breaking news.

There's more to Steve Jobs than being "non-technical" with "business experience." While he wasn't a programmer, Steve Jobs is a bona fide hacker in the bigger picture.

It would obviously lead to an infinite regress if we say that a physical state has to have been "encoded" in order to count as a bona fide computational state (since then the input to the encoding algorithm would itself need to have been encoded).