You know that a company can loose its trademark if the term is widely used in society to describe a product category instead of the product of that company?
You only help big corporations by enforcing not to use the trademark name for a product category.
Shrubbery@piefed.social 7 months ago
“Allen Key” is a trademark, “hex wrench” is the generic term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_(brand) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_key
funkajunk@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Doesn’t stop me from calling every set of motor-driven stairs an “Escalator”.
jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Or every large metal trash container a dumpster, or wvery cotton swab a q-tip etc.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 months ago
May be a trademark, but it’s a generic trademark
Mercury@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Very nice. Now let’s see Paul Allen’s key.
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
You know that a company can loose its trademark if the term is widely used in society to describe a product category instead of the product of that company?
You only help big corporations by enforcing not to use the trademark name for a product category.
Don’t be a capitalism enabler!
(Warning satire)