They won't have to change their name, it just means all the other companies can call their own stuff Velcro and not get sued themselves.I mean, on one hand, yeah, I can see where they're coming from.
On the other, it'll be an uphill battle. People have been calling hook and loop 'Velcro' for longer than uh, some of us have been alive.
It's literally all I've ever known it to be called, actually.
Sucks that they'll have to change their name or get sued into oblivion by trademark trolls.
Er...yeah there is. One part has a bunch of tiny hooks, and those hooks capture into the loops on the other side. That's the crackling sound when you pull it apart, the loops snapping back.
what do ppl call bandaids?
Hook and loop doesn't make any sense. There is no hook or loop.
Hook and loop doesn't make any sense. There is no hook or loop.
No mate, they're called plastersThe brits call it a bleedystopper, not to be confused with women's sanitary pads
Jet Ski has to be one that's close to becoming genericised. It's a Kawasaki trademark but I've literally never heard those vehicles referred to as anything other than jet skis.
Plaster in UK.
Sea Doo?
Wasn't aware they could lose a trademark by it being used generally like that.
Lanham Act sec. 14 (15 USC § 1064(c)) said:A petition to cancel a registration of a mark, stating the grounds relied upon, may, upon payment of the prescribed fee, be filed as follows: . . . at any time if the registered mark becomes the generic name for the goods or services, or a portion thereof, for which it is registered. . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks
Heroin being one is interesting.
Jet Ski has to be one that's close to becoming genericised. It's a Kawasaki trademark but I've literally never heard those vehicles referred to as anything other than jet skis.
Honey, Jimmy scraped his knee! Can you run inside and grab a plaster in UK?
Next up from Kleenex, "It's called a facial tissue you moron"
I velcroed my medical supplies to the wall in case I'm ever in urgent need of a bandaid. Then I grabbed some kleenex and googled some...nevermind.
I started to call them "personal watercraft" after learning that Jet Ski is a brand.
Hook and loop doesn't make any sense. There is no hook or loop.
Honey, Jimmy scraped his knee! Can you run inside and grab a plaster in UK?
Wasn't aware they could lose a trademark by it being used generally like that.
Game Boy had this too. He's playing his Nintendo and Game Boy even if it was an advance etc. For a while Xbox 360 had this same thing. People kept saying everyone playing their Xboxes.
It's happened multiple times.
Heroin was a trademark, for example.
The brits call it a bleedystopper, not to be confused with women's sanitary pads