{"id":43715,"date":"2014-07-21T09:02:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T15:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/when-brand-names-become-generic.html"},"modified":"2014-07-22T14:09:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T20:09:05","slug":"when-brand-names-become-generic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/when-brand-names-become-generic.html","title":{"rendered":"When brand names become generic"},"content":{"rendered":"
I knew about these past cases of brand names and trademarks become generic — it's one of the dangers of being incredibly successful in your field of business. \u00a0The disturbing thing is the list of products in danger of being genericized — in that I had no idea with a couple of them that they were actual brand names, and the trademark holders should probably be disturbed by that.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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15 Product Trademarks That Have Become Victims Of Genericization<\/a>
\n Sometimes, we hurt the ones we love. Which is why even if we didn’t mean to be so harsh, many products we use every day have become the victims of trademark genericization, meaning they’ve morphed …\n <\/p>\n

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I knew about these past cases of brand names and trademarks become generic — it's one of the dangers of being incredibly successful in your field of business. \u00a0The disturbing thing is the list of products in danger of being genericized — in that I had no idea with a couple of them that they … Continue reading “When brand names become generic”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,80,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-commercial","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37780,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/12\/generic-answers.html","url_meta":{"origin":43715,"position":0},"title":"Generic answers","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 12-Jun-13 3:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Good article on generic vs name-brand OTC drugs -- analgesics, sleep aids, etc. -- and where there are (and, more often, not) differences between them. 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