单词 | genericide |
释义 | genericiden. Law. The process by which a brand name loses its distinctive identity as a result of being used to refer to any product or service of its kind.Trademark registration can be revoked by law if a brand is judged to have lost its distinctive identity. ΚΠ 1972 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 23 Nov. v. 2/2 Dorothy Fey, executive director of the United States Trademark Assn., calls this dread process ‘genericide’. 1986 Jrnl. Marketing 50 No. 1. 69/1 A firm may follow certain procedures that will prevent ‘genericide’. 1991 Institutional Investor June 18/2 ‘Aspirin’ and ‘escalator’, previously proprietary trademarks, suffered so-called ‘genericide’ in this way. 2004 R. R. Butters & J. Westerhaus in A. Curzan & K. Emmons Stud. Hist. Eng. Lang. II 119 Genericide in itself seems to be something of a dying historical linguistic process. 2011 Independent Extra (Nexis) 10 June (Viewspaper section) 14 Genericide is the cruellest irony. A firm might come up with a brilliant marketing strategy.., but if its trademark..starts to mean the entire product category, it can kill it. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1972 |
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