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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Actually, like Kleenex, I suspect the word coke has become generic and lost it's trademark protection. I could be wrong. Certainly, in the South, one uses Coke for any carbonated soft drink. If you order a coke in the south, you likely will get a Coca Cola, but you also might get a Pepsi.
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I can assure you, Kleenix is still a defendable trademark. You might say "hand me the Kleenex" and point to a box of Puffs....but just go ahead and sell your own Kleenex branded tissues.
You can't even put your sugar water in a bottle the SHAPE of a Coca-Cola bottle as Coke has trademarked the shape.
And yet, we have all manner of brands of sugar water. There is no scarcity to brand naming...just as there is no scarcity to fiction. I'm for permanent copyrights just like we have permanent trademarks. As long as a company or individual is using their trademark/copyright, it should be their intellectual property.
The prior statement was a statement of opinion. It's the correct opinion to have.
The prior statement about the opinion being correct....was itself a statement of opinion.