Dupont Plays Hard Ball With Teflon Tape
In a recent posting on their web site, industrial giant Dupont accuses users of the generic term “teflon tape” to describe the tape used by millions of plumbers and handymen of “Identity theft”.
Dupont points out that Teflon is a registered trademark of their company and that other brands of fluoropolymer tapes are not teflon and should not be labeld as such.
Dupont joins a long list of manufacturers of products like Band Aids, Kleenex and Coke who have seen the use of their brand name move into the popular vernacular to the point that the value of the trademark means almost nothing.
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