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when a word becomes too common it risks losing its trademark though
by ekianjo 3y ago
when a word becomes too common it risks losing its trademark though
- oxfordmale 3y agoGood luck trade marking X
- mcintyre1994 3y agoOr the logo, which is a unicode character: 𝕏 https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F
- xdennis 3y agoYou would be surprised how accommodating US trademarks are, like how you can't make pink insulation because it's "owned" by Owens Corning.
- panopticon 3y agoOhio State University trademarked the "THE" in certain contexts: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-state-university-officially-wins-trademark-word-federal-governmen-rcna34857 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-state-university-o...
- oplaadpunt 3y agoThats's only when applied to things outide twitter, which I don't think it's the case. I have never heard anyone talk about retweeting on facebook or whatever. The fact they don't do this would make their brand even more valuable
- thrawaway3292 3y agoIt's pretty simple to avoid that. And no one really talks about Tweeting outside the context of Twitter, which made Twitter's job way easier than say Google's, where something like "I googled you on Bing" has become an acceptable and common turn of phrase.
- popey 3y agoSurely "I googled you on Bing" is only ever said with lashings of irony? I've never heard anyone use that phrase in any serious way.
- ryanbrunner 3y agoCertainly not together like that, but I've definitely mentioned googling something when I actually used the brave default search engine.
- CPLX 3y agoBeing common has nothing to do with it. “FedEx” and “Coke” are common. The issue is when it becomes generic which is a difference concept.
- NeoTar 3y agoCoke is arguably generic across large portions of the USA: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/soda-vs-pop_n_2103764 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/soda-vs-pop_n_2103764
- MandieD 3y agoOne of the most common exchanges I heard growing up in north Central Texas: "What kind of coke do you want?" "Dr. Pepper"
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoI grew up in Houston and this was a common question (and answer) to the point where all the midwesterners in college arguing about “soda” vs “pop” just thought us Texans were crazy.
- madeofpalk 3y agoAhh yes, like the incredibly un-common Letter X.
- madeofpalk 3y agoAhh yes, like the incredibly un-common letters of the alphabet.