The Great British Fake Off: how show's name is edited for an US of A television

Re:The Great British Fake Off: how show's name is edited for... by simonblack on Saturday December 25, 2021 @06:58PM (#29688277)

Or Windows?

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Re:The Great British Fake Off: how show's name is edited for... by chrisseaton on Saturday December 25, 2021 @07:50PM (#29688571)

I don’t think that’s as generic. It’s be like trademarking ‘operating system’ when everyone’s been using operating systems for years.

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Re:The Great British Fake Off: how show's name is edited for... by blueboo on Sunday December 26, 2021 @04:44AM (#29690984)

Indeed. So easy to forget that house holes have only been called “windows” since the term became popular in the 90s.

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Re:The Great British Fake Off: how show's name is edited for... by chrisseaton on Sunday December 26, 2021 @05:52AM (#29691342)

Not sure why you’re feeling the need to be sarcastic?

It’s fine to use generic words in trademarks, but generally not generic words from the domain the trademark is being registered in. So you can trademark ‘apple’ in the domain of computers, but not in the domain of fruit. And you can register ‘windows’ in the domain of operating systems but not in the domain of construction.

‘Bake-off’ is a generic baking term registered in the domain of baking, which is odd.

(Lots of operating system desktop environments have ‘windows’ as a concept but it wasn’t as commonly known at the time.)

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Re:The Great British Fake Off: how show's name is edited for... by gallego2007 on Saturday December 25, 2021 @07:43PM (#29688530)

Touché.

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