Can you xerox that for me must be the exception?https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1269018249053777920 …
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Blake is right that if your brand is so strong that people associate it with the generic type of goods that is a win as he showed with Google (or Googling as it were
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Post is right that it is bad for your brand it it becomes the generic name for the goods in question. In
this case, you would lose your trademark. With these two things said, so long as customers who associate the type of goods with the brand don’t think the brand is a generic name for the goods, ie calling http://bing.com a google (and not knowing it’s a brand) or calling
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all building blocks legos (and again not knowing it’s a brand), you are fine. And iirc there is a case which says that just because Google became a verb, it doesn’t mean it’s become a generic. Therefore they keep their TM.
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To give some examples, in the original tweet, I didn’t know bubble wrap and chapstick were verbs. Don’t bet on those. They are likely to lose their TM. Bad cos to bet on. https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1269018249053777920?s=21 …https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1269018249053777920 …
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