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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: There he goes again
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:20:07 -0000 (UTC)
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 05:40 this Sunday (GMT):
> On 14 Jul 2024 04:28:16 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 01:39:24 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> 
>>> On 13 Jul 2024 18:36:51 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>>> 
>>>> A USB flash drive, aka memory stick, aka thumb drive?
>>> 
>>> Sony has, or had, a trademark on the term “Memory Stick”. Which kind of
>>> discouraged its use for USB sticks in general.
>> 
>> Yeah, well, Xerox, Kleenex, and Band-Aid are trademarked too afaik. 
>
> I think most of those are gone.


Yeah, isn't there a legal thing where like if a name becomes part of
common vocabulary, then you lose the trademark? I remember a long time
ago reading that Photoshop was trying to get people to say they
"digitally enhanced this image with Adobe PhotoshopTM" instead of
saying "i photoshopped it" like a normal person.
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