You know that a company can loose its trademark if the term is widely used in society to describe a product category instead of the product of that company?
You only help big corporations by enforcing not to use the trademark name for a product category.
You mean Allen key!
“Allen Key” is a trademark, “hex wrench” is the generic term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_(brand) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_key
Doesn’t stop me from calling every set of motor-driven stairs an “Escalator”.
Zamboni too
See you in the Jacuzzi
Does Velcro work in those?
Can you pass me a Kleenex?
Let me put all these down on a Post-it note with my Sharpie
Don’t forget the pork roll.
Or every large metal trash container a dumpster, or every cotton swab a q-tip etc.
May be a trademark, but it’s a generic trademark
Very nice. Now let’s see Paul Allen’s key.
You know that a company can loose its trademark if the term is widely used in society to describe a product category instead of the product of that company?
You only help big corporations by enforcing not to use the trademark name for a product category.
Don’t be a capitalism enabler!
(Warning satire)