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- List of Generic and Genericized Trademarks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks 3 comments
- TIL that the owner of a brand name can lost their legal protection for it if people started using it as the common or generic name for a type of product or service. This is what happened to Cellophane, Escalator, Flip Phone, Frisbee, Hovercraft, Kerosene, Sellotape, Trampoline, and Videotape. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks#List_of_former_trademarks_that_have_been_genericized 9 comments btc
Linking pages
- Let’s not be pedantic about “Open Source” https://www.arp242.net/open-source.html 17 comments
- What it means to be great – Asymco http://www.asymco.com/2015/09/29/what-it-means-to-be-great/ 0 comments
- “Genericide” legal assault to nullify the Google trademark fails | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/genericide-assault-to-nullify-the-google-trademark-fails/ 0 comments
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