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WIPIP 2022, Session 6 (TM)

43(B)log

Problems: JELLY ROLL is registered for fabric, but the public uses it generically to describe strips from a fabric line rolled into a roll. Born generic: sewcial, for sewing bee in social media age; but SEWCIAL is registered for services and now sending C&D letters to all the other users of the term. What to do next?