Commonym

What is Commonym?


1.

A trademarked term used to identify all products of the same type, such as the word "Kleenex" used to describe any facial tissue, or "Vaseline" as a term for a competing petroleum jelly. Other commonyms include, Band-Aid, ChapStick, Popsicle, and Q-tip.

Some former trademarks have become generic terms after a long life as commonyms, such as aspirin (formerly trademarked by Bayer) and escalator (a former trademark of the Otis Elevator Company.)

If Apple doesn't protect it's trademark, iPod will become a commonym for an MP3 player.

See trademark, consumerism, q-tip, vaseline, band-aid, kleenex, popsicle, chapstick, ipod


37

Random Words:

1. To broadcast the status of your project for stakeholders to listen to on their ipod or other digital music playing device. Derivative o..
1. This is what you get when you mix Squirrels with Milk Squirrels and milk Make Meak See milk, meak, noi, geo 2. Not being racist your..
1. 1. One who is indecisive and cant make a decision unless it involves sex, booze, or shoes. 2. Tend to not know what it wants so says &q..