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huh. TIL. Never knew that was a generic name.
by ImprovedSilence 7y ago
huh. TIL. Never knew that was a generic name.
- adinobro 7y agoIn Australia, it was considered a type of shoe like a "boot". We got really annoyed when a US company trademarked an Australian product and then stopped Australian companies from selling it under the name they had been using for decades. Sort of like this exact case...
- siquick 7y agoThank you for posting this. A timely reminder that the problem isn't China, or any country in specific - the problem is greed.
- MRD85 7y agoIt's not even closely related to any brand here. It's completely generic. Most of the time the ugg boots producers are really small businesses and you purchase locally made ones.
- pvaldes 7y agoA possible solution would be the [australian] government trademarking their traditional product names or a similar variant, and then acting as umbrella for thousands of australian small companies. Granting a free use of the term and defense against predatory practices. A sort of shared trademark. Maybe should be named uggstralian boots from now on.
- MRD85 7y agoWhy should it be named uggstralian now? It's an offensive suggestion. Do you think generic American words,like Pickup truck or Hamburger, should be able to be trademarked and then America would need to change the word?
- pvaldes 7y ago> Why should it be named uggstralian now? Because "ugg boots" is now a trademark, therefore unavailable for everybody else, whereas "hamburger" is not. Can you provide a better name?