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Much of the discussion on this page was regarding the list of generic and genericized trademarks. That list now has its own page, and the related discussion has been moved to its talk page.

Please don't re-create the list here. The list already exists on the List of generic and genericized trademarks page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ComputerGeezer (talk • contribs) 00:29, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Whether to split the article was discussed under the section #Split, below on this talk page.
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I think the title of this article should be changed to "Genericized Trademarks." If you aks any trademark lawyer (and I'm one of them)m they'll tell you that there is no such thing as a "Generic Trademark" because generic terms cannot ever be trademarks. So, there are "generic terms" and genericized trademarks (i.e., terms that use to be trademarks). Therefore, I believe a title change is appropriate in the interest of accuracy. Cheers, Alpha908 (talk) 17:30, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

don't say Velcro video[edit]

one of my favorite examples of efforts to combat this phenomenon comes from the legal department of the Velcro company, in which their lawyers did an entire song and dance musical number (not even counting the follow-up video responding to negative feedback they got from Internet trolls) about why genericide of their trademark for hook-and-loop fasteners (which, to be fair, they did invent themselves!) leads to extra work for them. Is there any way some sort of reference to this video could be worked into the corresponding section of article? It's a prime example of the lengths to which a company may go to protect their brand, so I thought it could be useful. It was certainly entertaining to watch, regardless of the motive! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Macks2008 (talk • contribs) 16:51, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

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