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    Doesn't stop me from calling every set of motor-driven stairs an "Escalator".

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    You know that a company can loose its trademark if the term is widely used in society to describe a product category instead of the product of that company?

    You only help big corporations by enforcing not to use the trademark name for a product category.

    Don’t be a capitalism enabler!

    (Warning satire)

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