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You have 2 companies in different industries (Coffee / Industrial Equipment) both trying to sell clothing containing the common English word "Cat". "Cat" shoul
by wvenable 7y ago
You have 2 companies in different industries (Coffee / Industrial Equipment) both trying to sell clothing containing the common English word "Cat".
"Cat" should not even be trademarkable on it's own.
- klingonopera 7y agoI absolutely agree. In some countries, those kind of trademarks don't fly, precisely because of common word usage (e.g. here in Germany). OTOH, in the USA, if a term becomes "genericized" it enters public domain[1], something that couldn't happen here, so that also has its perks... Gawd, how I would love to see Apple lose their trademark... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark