Fun fact: aspirin and heroin were developed just a few days apart in the same lab.
Those researchers were probably aspirin’ to be heroin’
One hell of a week. Probably an even crazier weekend.
They made heroin to try and be a less addictive form of morphine.
I thoight the trademarks were also claimed as reparations after World War I.
Okay but like, when I ask for a Sharpie I do not want to be handed just any piece of shit marker.
So what tips it over the edge into losing the trademark? Cause many of those things on the at risk list are completely generic in common parlance already.
I have no idea how it actually works, but I would guess a court ruling or something invalidating the trademark. I don’t think the USPTO would just go around stripping trademarks for funsies, but if one got challenged in court that could very well lead to a judgement like “yeah, a popsicle is just so broadly understood as this class of thing you don’t have ownership over that anymore”
At a guess? Someone trying to enforce it and failing. I don’t think there’s any hard cutoff, because it would be nigh impossible to measure; you’d just have to do a vibe check for a jury or trademark office.
It’s not meat
What the fuck did they mean by this? I need answers!
TIL ping pong is actually called table tennis, I thought that was an entirely different sport
I think you mean wiff waff
I view this as a checklist of brand names that require additional assistance in falling off of the trademark cliff and crashing down onto the rocks of common usage below.
Remember, take extra care not to forget capitalization and formatting, spelling Jell-O™ as jello, for instance, greatly increases the risk of genericization
why shouldn’t we go back to heroin?
Maybe because it’s now fentanyl…
BLOOD RED SYMPTOMATIC VOMIT ON MY BED
Let me google that lol
