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Originally Posted by phio
Hi Ryu,
I think Chrome is a generic word... what do you think?
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I don't have a clear cut answer to it because クローム is a trasliterated word.
It's certainly not a generic word in a way that everyone knows what it means. For example, before Google released Chrome, I had not seen or heard the word クローム in my life, as far as I could recall.
Just think about it. Is "toyota" generic word? After all, toyota is a transliterated word of Japanese surname 豊田.....
In the case of クローム, I think the registration date of the domains will be an issue. You can only imagine what panels in arbitration would think about when they get to know that the domains were registered on 2 Septemper 2008...