Is the Mensa Trademark in Danger?
Recent actions by Google regarding use of the words "googling" and "googled" have been taken to protect their trademark and avoid going the way of Aspirin, Escalator, Cellophane, Nylon, Thermos, and Trampoline. All words that were trademarked but which are now generic terms. That is the ever present danger with a trademark that it enters the language and becomes a common word and trademark holders are directed to defend their trademark.I wonder if the same might happen to "mensa"? I receive daily Google Alerts for mensa (helps with this blog) and the number of people using it- I'm getting a google alert nearly every day for it. Eg. This page or this page suggests that the word is being increasingly to mean 'highly intelligent'. As my favourite robot used to say "Danger Will Robinson"...
August 23rd. Another One!
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