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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Corporate Curriculum #68414 05/17/02 03:00 PM Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 200 A AphonicRants enthusiast AphonicRants enthusiast A Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 200 And I KNOW there's a word for this. My father was a patent/trademark lawyer, so I grew up with this and can confirm. The legal term of art used, when the legal protection of a trademark or tradename is thus lost, is that the word in question has become "generic". Edit: That's currently a hot issue for Xerox­® and Scotch Tape®. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Corporate Curriculum Fiberbabe 05/01/02 11:43 AM Re: Corporate Curriculum of troy 05/01/02 01:06 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum Flatlander 05/03/02 06:57 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum boronia 05/03/02 07:29 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum jmh 05/03/02 09:09 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum Flatlander 05/08/02 11:28 AM Re: Corporate Curriculum Faldage 05/08/02 02:14 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum of troy 05/08/02 03:22 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum Flatlander 05/08/02 04:33 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum of troy 05/03/02 07:34 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum Jazzoctopus 05/03/02 11:06 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum of troy 05/04/02 02:26 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum bikermom 05/09/02 10:19 AM Re: Corporate Curriculum TheFallibleFiend 05/09/02 12:01 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum jmh 05/09/02 12:32 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum TheFallibleFiend 05/09/02 12:53 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum jmh 05/09/02 01:01 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum TheFallibleFiend 05/09/02 01:26 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum Faldage 05/09/02 04:06 PM Post deleted by SilkMuse SilkMuse 05/16/02 02:15 PM Aside jmh 05/16/02 10:08 PM Re: Aside bikermom 05/17/02 10:27 AM Re: Aside TheFallibleFiend 05/29/02 01:05 PM Re: Aside belMarduk 05/29/02 11:23 PM Re: Aside Bean 05/30/02 11:14 AM Re: Aside AnnaStrophic 05/30/02 11:30 AM Re: Aside of troy 05/30/02 02:24 PM Re: Aside Angel 05/30/02 07:28 PM Re: Aside belMarduk 05/30/02 08:09 PM Re: Aside Fiberbabe 06/01/02 03:25 AM Re: Aside jimthedog 06/02/02 11:47 AM Re: Aside TheFallibleFiend 05/30/02 12:39 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum Bean 05/17/02 02:21 PM Post deleted by ewein ewein 05/17/02 02:47 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum of troy 05/17/02 05:54 PM Post deleted by SilkMuse SilkMuse 05/17/02 07:54 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum Wordwind 05/17/02 10:11 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum Bingley 05/18/02 02:44 AM Re: Product placement jmh 05/18/02 09:08 PM Re: Product placement of troy 05/19/02 12:32 PM Re: Campbell AphonicRants 05/19/02 12:55 PM Re: Campbell Angel 05/19/02 01:11 PM Re: Campbell's -- as the lady request AphonicRants 05/19/02 05:05 PM Re: Campbell TheFallibleFiend 05/20/02 12:52 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum Fiberbabe 05/17/02 02:56 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum AphonicRants 05/17/02 03:00 PM Re: Kleenex Faldage 05/17/02 06:30 PM Post deleted by ewein ewein 05/16/02 08:25 PM Re: Corporate Curriculum of troy 05/16/02 09:11 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,350 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 1 members (A C Bowden), 904 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 27 A C Bowden 22 LukeJavan8 2 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,549 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,918 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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