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>>There are several examples of this but the only one
>>I can remember at the moment is escalator. Escalator was a trademarked
name
>>about 1900 but apparently the company used it as a noun too many times and
>>it became the generic term for all motorized moving stairs.
I believe that Kleenex is another one of those that became
the generic term for tissue.
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Marketing - Customer Tools
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