[HN Gopher] List of Generic and Genericized Trademarks
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       List of Generic and Genericized Trademarks
        
       Author : lelf
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2021-02-11 12:39 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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       | An0mammall wrote:
       | Crazy how many common terms like comic con or appstore are
       | trademarked. Also funny how Heroin is a brandname.
        
       | not_knuth wrote:
       | Is there some interesting backstory to sharing this? Is there an
       | interesting item on the long list somewhere?
        
         | geoffpado wrote:
         | Personally, I found the list in general interesting--I wasn't
         | aware that a lot of these were originally trademarks.
         | Escalator, flip phone, hovercraft; I just assumed that these
         | were the basic term for those things. Learning that they
         | weren't is interesting in its own right.
        
         | [deleted]
        
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