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• funkajunk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Doesn’t stop me from calling every set of motor-driven stairs an “Escalator”.

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  • jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or every large metal trash container a dumpster, or wvery cotton swab a q-tip etc.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  May be a trademark, but it’s a generic trademark

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• Mercury@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Very nice. Now let’s see Paul Allen’s key.

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• Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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)

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