Did Xerox ever sue people/businesses for using the Xerox trademark to generically refer to any old photocopier?
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That's one of the things about trade-marks... if you don't defend them, then the default position of the courts is that it didn't matter to you, which means you missed your chance to hang onto the trade-mark, and so you have to let it go.
The same thing happened with the term "escalator", which used to be a specific brand-name, but now is a generic term because the escalator company didn't enforce application of the term escalator to their product only.
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"In April 1970 IBM introduced an office copying machine, giving Xerox its first real competition. IBM's machine was not as fast or as sophisticated as the Xerox copiers, but it was well built and was backed by IBM's reputation. Xerox responded with a suit charging IBM with patent infringement. The dispute was settled in 1978 when IBM paid Xerox $25 million"1
Xerox has been involved in multiple law suites, but I could not locate one specifically about another company using the name for their own product. Hope this helps
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