| :::In product designations only or in a usage like "Our MFCs are right next to the printers"? If the latter, then [[WT:BRAND]] does not apply. [[User: DCDuring |DCDuring]] <small >[[User talk: DCDuring|TALK]]</small > 00:30, 28 January 2011 (UTC) | | :::In product designations only or in a usage like "Our MFCs are right next to the printers"? If the latter, then [[WT:BRAND]] does not apply. [[User: DCDuring |DCDuring]] <small >[[User talk: DCDuring|TALK]]</small > 00:30, 28 January 2011 (UTC) |
| ::::It was definitly a generic use of the term. They even had the "MFC aisle", and I'm sure there wasn't a Brother pinter in there. If the term is Brother's trademark, (and I can't find any evidence that it is) then it is trademark erosion.--[[User:Dmol|Dmol]] 10:24, 28 January 2011 (UTC) | | ::::It was definitly a generic use of the term. They even had the "MFC aisle", and I'm sure there wasn't a Brother pinter in there. If the term is Brother's trademark, (and I can't find any evidence that it is) then it is trademark erosion.--[[User:Dmol|Dmol]] 10:24, 28 January 2011 (UTC) |
| + | :I've found [[Citations:MFC|citations]] of use to refer to devices made by three different companies (Brother, HP, and Epson), which leads me to suspect that it isn't a trademark, and thus that BRAND doesn't apply, but I could easily be mistaken. [[User:-sche|- -sche]] [[User talk:-sche|(discuss)]] 02:10, 31 August 2011 (UTC) |
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