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Honestly surprised the trademark wasn't nullified earlier. It's pretty clear the term has become genericised at best, and was in common use before the trademark
by CM30 2y ago
Honestly surprised the trademark wasn't nullified earlier. It's pretty clear the term has become genericised at best, and was in common use before the trademark at worst.
Guess it shows you the dangers of uneven legal resources, since I suspect if the folks whose trademarks were shot down using this had fought back, it probably would have cancelled way earlier.
- Ekaros 2y agoNo one cares until someone cares. If trademark is not used in any actions to supress others, no one really tracks them. So there is no impetus to clean it up. And I don't think government has resources to iterate over trademark and invalidate generic ones automatically.
- shagie 2y ago... and many things that we consider to be generic ones may have started out specific and become generic through various means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericize...