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Give credit where credit is due, good job <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/07/20/build/state/20-lastbestplace.inc">Governor Schweitzer</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote><a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> plans to fight a Nevada businessman's effort to trademark the phrase "The Last Best Place," a description of Montana that Schweitzer says "belongs to the people of Montana."<br />n <br />n"We'll defend that position vigorously," the governor said Tuesday. "This is something that we've come to identify ourselves with, and something that the people of Montana have spent a great deal of time, money and effort on to promote our state."<br />n <br />n"The Last Best Place," coined by Missoula author William Kittredge in 1988 as the title of an anthology of work by Montana writers, has become a prevalent moniker, used not only by the state, but by a large number of businesses in promotional efforts.<br />n<br />nSchweitzer said the state will formally oppose Lipson's applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. State officials will argue the phrase should remain in the public domain, Schweitzer said.</blockquote><br />n<br />n<b>A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness. Eric Hoffer</b>