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Fair point but Eugen Rochko can’t have it both ways.

Remember that Eugen has been waging a campaign since 2016 to rename the “Fediverse” to, the “Mastodon Network.” And he’s won, 99.99% of news coverage refers to the entire Fediverse as the “Mastodon Network.” His campaign has been so successful, even the founders of other Fediverse software troll Eugen and the “Mastodon Network” (see picture below).

There are consequences when you succeed in getting your trade name to become the generic name for the entire Fediverse, you lose your protection like the many examples below:

1. Aspirin - Still a Bayer trademark name for acetylsalicylic acid in about 80 countries, including Canada and many countries in Europe, but declared generic in the U.S.

2. Cellophane - Still a registered trademark of Innovia Films Ltd in Europe and many other jurisdictions. Genericized in the U.S. Originally a trademark of DuPont.[3][4] A thin, transparent sheet made of regenerated cellulose.

3. Dry ice - Trademarked by the Dry Ice Corporation of America in 1925. A solid form of carbon dioxide.

4. Escalator Originally a trademark of Otis Elevator Company and it was a registered trademark until 1950.

5. Flip phone Originally a trademark of Motorola.

6. Heroin Trademarked by Friedrich Bayer & Co in 1898. Trademark lost in some nations in the Treaty of Versailles, in 1919.

7. Hovercraft Trademarked by Saunders-Roe.

8. Kerosene First used around 1852.

9. Lanolin Trademarked as the term for a preparation of water and the wax from sheep’s wool.

10. Launderette Coin laundry shop.[15] Telecoin-Bendix trademark, for coin laundries of Telecoin-adapted Bendix machines. Laundromat

11. Linoleum

12. Mimeograph Originally trademarked by Albert Dick.[19] A low-cost printing press that works by forcing ink through a stencil.

13. Scotch Tape came to be used in Canada, France, Italy and the United States, in referring to any brand of clear adhesive tape.

14. Teleprompter The word TelePrompTer, with internal capitalization, originated in the 1950s as a trade name used by the TelePrompTer Corporation, for their television prompting apparatus.

15. Trampoline Originally a trademark of the Griswold-Nissen Trampoline & Tumbling Company.

16. Videotape Originally trademarked by Ampex Corporation,an early manufacturer of audio and video tape recorders.