Not exactly, that is a thing but it would be kind of the opposite of this. Let’s say a company was the first to ever make tortilla chips, and tortilla was the brand name. Then other companies started making something like tortilla chips with a different name, but then the name tortilla became so common that the first company lost its trademark so then everybody could call them tortilla chips.
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LGTM@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks agoWouldn’t this make them lose their trademark (or whatever the appropriate term is) because it goes into commom use? I swear that happened with another company
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papalonian@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It happened to a number of companies. Flip Phone, Laundromat, Trampoline, Escalator… all used to be protected names.
LGTM@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Flip phone is news to me, so is airfryer???
papalonian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There’s a couple of surprising ones in there. “Dumpster” was changed for other reasons, but I didnt know it was a name brand.