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Then there was the story about Mr. Chadless, after whose patented Chadless keypunch the word chad was backformed.
http://www.snopes.com/business/names/chad.asp
But, if you're going to be a pedant you might as well at least refer to them as pseudeponyms not pseudoeponyms.
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