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Plenty of companies use generic words for their name, and they still get trademarks. American Airlines for example is indeed just an American airline. The Cont
by Legend2440 3mo ago
Plenty of companies use generic words for their name, and they still get trademarks.
American Airlines for example is indeed just an American airline. The Container Store, Vision Center, General Motors, International business machines (IBM), the list goes on.
Even Microsoft is just a contraction of their original product, microcomputer software.
- literalAardvark 3mo agoIn the US
- Legend2440 3mo agoMany of these companies have EU trademarks as well.
- raverbashing 3mo ago> Even Microsoft is just a contraction of their original product, microcomputer software. Hopefully that was also a family suggestion because I can't think of a more sloppy name than "Microcomputer software"
- DrammBA 3mo agoI understood it more in the line of preventing a company from naming itself "Low sugar" and then blocking other companies from adding the words "Low sugar" to their packaging. Same thing with OpenAI, another company should be free to create an AI that's fully open and tag it as "Open AI" without fearing legal problems with OpenAI.
- josefx 3mo ago> is indeed just an American airline. I would say there is nothing descriptive about calling something American. America doesn't even refer to a single country, does it operate out of Brazil? Would that even be relevant information to anyone using an Airline?