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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®.
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