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Hold on … I surely can’t go and start a drinks company and call my drink coke? Same with a search engine and Google?
by quickthrower2 5y ago
Hold on … I surely can’t go and start a drinks company and call my drink coke? Same with a search engine and Google?
- trollman5000 5y agoYou should call it Red Cross Cola and just mix coke with rat poison.
- gpm 5y agoNo, but it's a closer call than you might think, and (the general idea) has been litigated relatively recently: https://www.finnegan.com/en/insights/blogs/incontestable/google-survives-attempted-genericide.html https://www.finnegan.com/en/insights/blogs/incontestable/goo... Google has also been taking defensive actions to prevent this from happening for all of recent history: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3006486.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3006486.stm