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No 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.
by Ekaros 2y ago
No 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...