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This Captain Disillution video shows the lengths the producers went to apply that title change to the show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OEwbocwYF8

I enjoy this example from television, a name change for a popular baking show when it was brought to the USA led to editing the logo on a glass plate in many shots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OEwbocwYF8

⬐ Apocryphon

Delightful, but also a sober reminder of the existence of the vast consumer industrial complex of monoliths like General Mills, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, etc. who own so much of our day to day existence.

⬐ chrisseaton

How is it possible to trademark such a generic phrase as 'bake-off'?

⬐ simonblack

Or Windows?

⬐ gallego2007

Touché.

⬐ chrisseaton

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

⬐ blueboo

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

⬐ chrisseaton

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.)