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yes, it's only for trademark and even then it is rare. Frisbee still has their trademark somehow, even though everyone calls all brands of novelty flying discs
by dec0dedab0de 6y ago
yes, it's only for trademark and even then it is rare. Frisbee still has their trademark somehow, even though everyone calls all brands of novelty flying discs frisbees
ianal, but im pretty sure im right.
- colejohnson66 6y ago“Frisbee” probably is “genericized.” The problem is that it takes a court ruling on it to know for sure, and no one wants to be the one to take that risk. It costs money to deal with the inevitable lawsuit, and if you lose, you need to fix it (and that costs a lot of money as well). OTOH, it costs (relatively) nothing do just choose a different name in the first place.
- pessimizer 6y agoPretty much all of the archetypal examples of trademarks becoming "genericized" are actually examples where the trademarks are still fully enforced. I'm not going to be able to get away with selling Bob's Kleenex or Happy Sheep Q-Tips anytime in the foreseeable future. That entire lecture that everybody gets seems to me to be for the purpose of rationalizing sometimes extremely aggressive trademark enforcement to prevent something that has never happened.
- kd5bjo 6y agoThere are some quite familiar terms that used to be trademarks, though: cellophane, dry ice, trampoline, escalator. As usual, Wikipedia has a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks#List_of_former_trademarks_that_have_been_genericized https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericize...