My favorite one is dry ice, because people assume that's just like, the scientific term for it. Nope, it's literally just an arbitrary brand name from way back when.
There's not a word for it in english? In french it's called scratch, because of the sound it makes.
Yeah, Velcro needs to give us a better option than "hook and loop" if they want people to stop calling it velcro.You ever say Hook and Loop to anyone? They look at you funny.
This is only a short-term Band-Aid to Velcro's problem isn't it?
hook is scratchy loop is fuzzyI can't even remember which one is the hook and which is the loop. Gonna stick to Velcro.
As this 1990 NOA poster shows it's a very real fear for a company's brand.
Yeah, Velcro needs to give us a better option than "hook and loop" if they want people to stop calling it velcro.
The brits call it a bleedystopper, not to be confused with women's sanitary pads
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks
Heroin being one is interesting.
It must be a delicate line companies want. They want their brand to become ubiquitous, but if it actually does become so, then it hurts them.
No they don't. The trademark registration process is entirely voluntary. The legal department could see that getting people to adopt "hook and loop" is unlikely and ask someone (marketing, industry association, etc...) to come up with a catchier public facing name for the technology and put it out there unprotected.Then they'd have to trademark it. Hook and loop is the industry name.
Trademark, not copyright. Trademark identifies a products from a particular organization. It lasts as long as it is relevant (and not genericized.) Copyright protects a particular expression. It lasts (generally) the author's life plus 70 years.I honestly had no idea it was a copyrighted thing until now.
No they don't. The trademark registration process is entirely voluntary. The legal department could see that getting people to adopt "hook and loop" is unlikely and ask someone (marketing, industry association, etc...) to come up with a catchier public facing name for the technology and put it out there unprotected.
The brits call it a bleedystopper, not to be confused with women's sanitary pads
Never heard one single person in the UK call it a bleedystopper...
Everyone calls them plasters.
Tbh, jokes aside, this is a serious thing.
Htf Google gets away with it is bullshit.
I got it, thanks. The R is what confused me I guess. Stupid question, but whey don't they use T for trademark? R is just...reserved right? On topic, it's just another common thing I didn't take the time to think aboutTrademark, not copyright. Trademark identifies a products from a particular organization. It lasts as long as it is relevant (and not genericized.) Copyright protects a particular expression. It lasts (generally) the author's life plus 70 years.
I got it, thanks. The R is what confused me I guess. Stupid question, but whey don't they use T for trademark? R is just...reserved right? On topic, it's just another common thing I didn't take the time to think about
I got it, thanks. The R is what confused me I guess. Stupid question, but whey don't they use T for trademark? R is just...reserved right? On topic, it's just another common thing I didn't take the time to think about
You generically called pain medication "aspirin."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.
Compare it to the pain relief aisle. There are fifteen brands of aspirin, but only one brand called Tylenol. Everyone else makes acetaminophen.
Wikipedia said:In 1897, scientists at Bayer began studying acetylsalicylic acid as a less-irritating replacement for common salicylate medicines. By 1899, Bayer had named the drug Aspirin and was selling it around the world. The word Aspirin was Bayer's brand name; however, their rights to the trademark were lost or sold in many countries.
Lol. WHERE DOES IT END? I'm gonna have to have a coke and sit in my jacuzzi while I think about this.You generically called pain medication "aspirin."
Not sure why I should care if a successful company loses it's trademark.
This is pretty funny but