techcrunch.com— There's been quite a bit of controversy over the past several hours over words and images related to Twitter being used by third-party ...
Jul 1, 2009View in Crawl 4
It's been in public use for months now. I don't see how any court can grant people to STOP using a word like it's being used now. Because they didn't aggressively defend it from the beginning, I don't think it'll be granted. Same thing happened to Kleenex and Band-Aids. And because it's a natural sound that refers to birds, it's going to be harder still.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark</a>
you can call anything you want a "window" or refer to them as "windows" but you can't name a product "Windows". it's easy.
sinembarg0Jul 2, 2009
Looks like Twitter figured out their business model.
xinoJul 2, 2009
For anyone confused, go here <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_buffa ...</a>
dagamer34Jul 2, 2009
It's been in public use for months now. I don't see how any court can grant people to STOP using a word like it's being used now. Because they didn't aggressively defend it from the beginning, I don't think it'll be granted. Same thing happened to Kleenex and Band-Aids. And because it's a natural sound that refers to birds, it's going to be harder still.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark</a>
ceolwulfJul 2, 2009
you can call anything you want a "window" or refer to them as "windows" but you can't name a product "Windows". it's easy.
bshockJul 2, 2009
Wow, that has to be some sort of jump-the-shark record time.
awesomeisdiggJul 18, 2009
+1
awesomeisdiggJul 18, 2009
Shameless advert but you have a point.
airabongcoSep 13, 2009
Though they have popularized the word, they will have trouble when they have it trademarked.