Comments on: YouTube Now A Verb?

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 02:32:27 +0000

thats is why companies don’t want their brand to be used generically, they could loose their trademark!

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 02:30:43 +0000

“I have a headache, I need some Aspirin”, used for any type of headache/pain killer. At lease in Canada around the people I know use it that way.

In the UK the word “Aspirin” is not trademarked, and is a generic word.

from wikipedia @ [en.wikipedia.org]

“Sterling was subsequently unable to prevent “Aspirin” from being ruled a genericized trademark in a U.S. federal court in 1921. Sterling was ultimately acquired by Bayer in 1994, but this did not restore the U.S. trademark. Other countries (such as Canada and many countries in Europe) still consider “Aspirin” a protected trademark.”

By: The Guru

The Guru — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:41:25 +0000

Phillip Black wrote:

Kleenex? Might not be a verb but it’s along the same lines…..

Coke (for any kinda cola).

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:18:24 +0000

The Guru wrote:

No different than people using ‘Xerox’ as verb

Nice one...I can't think of any others though.

By: DKong

DKong — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:57:11 +0000

Actually, Ashley, I’ve seen a number of people refer to any image editing as “photoshopping”. While it’s sorta stupid logic..think about it. “I gimped it” “I paint.net’ed it” “I MS painted it”. How dumb to those all sound compared to photoshop?

By: Phillip Black

Phillip Black — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:43:30 +0000

Kleenex? Might not be a verb but it’s along the same lines…..
I Love GOOGLE!~

By: The Guru

The Guru — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:33:46 +0000

No different than people using ‘Xerox’ as verb

By: dr.google

dr.google — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:16:29 +0000

your actually wrong, google doesnt mind the word google being used as a verb. what they objected to was how it was put into the dictionary. the wanted it to not be defined as a generic web search, but as a web search done using google.