Companies often hate it when their trademarks are used to describe other products, and see it as a misrepresentation of their brand.
There are advantages too. Brands whose names have been adopted by the public for common use have a huge advantage in spreading their names by word-of-mouth.
All of these brands were trademarked at some point in their histories, but a few have lost their legal protection because they became too much of a common name.
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