# Bizarre Non-Trademark Infringing Names for Popular Products

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 28, 2019, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-non-trademark-infringing-names-for-popular-products/834627 "2019-05-28T05:04:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-non-trademark-infringing-names-for-popular-products/834627/41 "2019-05-29T23:48:33Z")

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Lego is simply following its legal counsels’ advice to avoid genericide. They don’t actually hate the people they send such letters to. The people reading the letters are the ones overreacting.

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