No, 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/incon

No, 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