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The following three lists of generic and genericized trademarks are: * marks which were originally legally protected trademarks, but have been genericized and have lost their legal status due to becoming generic terms, * marks which have been abandoned and are now generic terms * marks which are still legally protected as trademarks, at least in some jurisdictions ==List of former trademarks that have been genericized== The following partial list contains marks which were originally legally protected trademarks, but which have subsequently lost legal protection as trademarks by becoming the common name of the relevant product or service, as used both by the consuming public and commercial competitors. These marks were determined in court to have become generic. Some marks retain trademark protection in certain countries despite being declared generic in others. ; 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.〔(Bayer Co. v. United Drug Co., 272 F. 505 (S.D.N.Y. 1921) ), Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, accessed March 25th, 2011〕 ; Catseye: Originally a trademark for a specific type of retroreflective road safety installation.〔The History of British Roadsigns, Dept. for Transport, 2nd Edition, 1999〕 ; 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.〔(Cellophane: Definitions from Dictionary.com )〕 A thin, transparent sheet made of regenerated cellulose. ; Dry ice:Trademarked by the Dry Ice Corporation of America in 1925.〔(Dry Ice – Who Invented Dry Ice? )〕〔(dry ice. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000 )〕 A solid form of carbon dioxide. ; Escalator: Originally a trademark of Otis Elevator Company. ; Flip phone: Originally a trademark of Motorola. ; Flit gun: Originally trademarked as a dispenser for Flit, a brand of insecticide manufactured by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (later Exxon). ; Heroin: Trademarked by Friedrich Bayer & Co in 1898.〔(Online Etymology Dictionary )〕〔(heroin – Definitions from Dictionary.com )〕 ; Kerosene:First used around 1852.〔(kerosene – Definitions from Dictionary.com )〕 ; Lanolin: Trademarked as the term for a preparation of water and the wax from sheep's wool. ; Laundromat: Coin laundry shop. Westinghouse trademark, registered in the U.S. in the 1940s (automatic washing machine) and 1950s (coin laundry) but now expired. ; Linoleum: Floor covering,〔(linoleum. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000 )〕 originally coined by Frederick Walton in 1864, and ruled as generic following a lawsuit for trademark infringement in 1878; probably the first product name to become a generic term. ; Mimeograph: Originally trademarked by Albert Dick.〔(mimeograph. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000 )〕 A low-cost printing press that works by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper. ; Sellotape: Sellotape is a British brand of transparent, cellulose-based, pressure-sensitive adhesive tape, and is the leading brand in the United Kingdom. Sellotape is generally used for joining, sealing, attaching and mending. The term has become a genericised trademark in the UK, Ireland, Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Israel, India, Serbia, Japan, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, and is used much in the same way that Scotch Tape came to be used in Canada and the United States, in referring to any brand of clear adhesive tape. ; Spidola: A brand created by the Latvian manufacturer VEF, but widely used in Russian to refer to all transistor radios.〔(«Спидолу» писали с маленькой буквы…//Телеграф, № 56 (294) от 22 марта 2004 )〕 ; Thermos: Originally a Thermos GmbH〔(Thermos.com )〕 trademark name for a vacuum flask; declared generic in the U.S. in 1963.〔''King-Seeley Thermos Co. v. Aladdin Indus., Inc.'', 321 F.2d 577 (2d Cir. 1963); see also (this PDF )〕 ;Trampoline: Originally a trademark of the Griswold-Nissen Trampoline & Tumbling Company〔http://books.google.com/books?id=s85tbw_N6hcC&pg=PA125&lpg=PA125&dq=%22rebound+tumbler%22&source=web&ots=ECkPR651id&sig=NKWvO7nxkFAT62GJ6e3WMKFLnvk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result〕 ; Videotape: Originally trademarked by Ampex Corporation,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ampex Corporation - GHN: IEEE Global History Network )〕 an early manufacturer of audio and video tape recorders. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of generic and genericized trademarks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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