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How many more examples are there of this?
I don't know if these things still work in the States - do you even get sellotape in the States? Maybe thats a seperate question.
Anyway, how many more of these are there where a brand has total monopoly of a name? Yes its Monday morning.
Sticky Tape - Sellotape
Vacuum cleaner - Hoover
cola - Coke
flavoured Milk Drink - Breaka
Pay Tv - austar in my area, its foxtel in the city
thanks,
dizzy
Cola - Coke
Packaged rubbish : McDonalds...
Did you know, if you allow a trade mark to become a generic term for, say, a biro, you loose the trademark protection?
The consequence being there are trade mark lawyers who have to spend all day writing letters like "Dear sir, I notice that in "Temporary Constructions Weekly" you refer to a generic modular building system as a "portacabin". Please note that "Portacabin" is in fact a trade mark of our client Sadbastard Ltd, and the correct term is modular building system. Yours Sincerely"
It must be a fate worse than death.
In our exams in school we were forbidden to use terms like Word, Excel, Access etc. If you used them they were treated as gibberish. You had to say Word Processor Application, Spreadsheet Application, Program that looks like a database but is actually a series of flat files with crazy algorithms etc.
Biro is a good one.
Word Processor - Word
Spreadsheet - Excel
Presentation Software - Powerpoint
Photocopier - Xerox
Operating System - (Mcrosoft)Windows
Minimal intelligence - RTW AI
(UK) Toilet - (US) Bathroom
Condom-Durex.
plaster - bandaid
moving staircase - escalator
Compleate stupidity- BKS lol only mesing mate.
Teh Ban!!!!111ONE-tibilicus. ~;)Quote:
Originally Posted by tibilicus
fabric plaster- Elastoplast
Correction Fluid - White out
Headache tablet- Panadol most of the time
i can't remember any more
thanks,
dizzy
Ahh, over here its:Quote:
Correction Fluid - White out
Correction Fluid - Tipex
Nitrous oxide for cars - NOS