Trademark Violations!!!

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Wow, Adobe is getting very annoyed about people misusing the name of Photoshop. To the point where it's funny and stupid.

http://www.adobe.com/misc/trade.html#photoshop

Trademarks help protect corporate and product identity, and Photoshop is one of Adobe's most valuable trademarks. By following the below guidelines, you can help Adobe protect the Photoshop brand name.

The Photoshop trademark must never be used as a common verb or as a noun. The Photoshop trademark should always be capitalized and should never be used in possessive form, or as a slang term. It should be used as an adjective to describe the product, and should never be used in abbreviated form. The following examples illustrate these rules:
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check the link for some of the rules...but is this REALLY some sort of trademark violation if we do that stuff?
 
I'm not sure of the legal ramifications, but you are breaking the rules they have set. If they can prove it is a detriment to their product then I'm sure they can sue for losses.

Art is a tricky thing. Commercial art is serious business. Adobe is in the business of making tools for commercial art, so their business is really serious. So long as you don't draw attention to what you're doing I don't think you're causing a problem.
 
If I edited a picture using Photoshop, I will say that I have photoshopped/photochopped that picture. I paid alot of money for Photoshop so I will say what I want. Dont really see the problem.

Guess www.photochopshop.com better watch there backs
 
in my Marketing class, we had a lecture on a similar topic. Back in the early '90s, the company RollerBlade had similar probs that Adobe is currently having and they went to the extent of mass advertising all these corrections. They did it to keep the title from becoming a generic term (which it already had)
 
Yes, the same is true with Xerox, and Kleenex. Among other things.

It can actually be quite detrimental to their product if people use their product name in place of a lesser product. It could generate a bad reputation.
 
Adobe needs to get it's head out of it's arse. Surely it is good for the product if it gets used to do a task more than any other product that the task gets named after it.

Do Hoover complain that the vacuum cleaner is so often called a hoover?

Would Adobe rather that editing pictures was called "PaintShopPro-ing"? I think not.

EDIT: Adobe, please accept my humble apologies for not putting the ® in after Adobe! Please don't sue me!
 
Now that's just silly. I know I'm not going to listen to that statement, as they have no way of controlling how the word "photoshop" is used. In fact, I might just be going down to the photo-shop to have some pictures developed. Adobe, although having a trademark to that word, cannot control how it is used. If I want to say "I photoshopped this car here" or "Photoshopping is what some people spend their freetime doing" then they can't stop me. In fact, they should be grateful that people are using the word so much because it is making the young people who don't have it and who want to start photoshopping for whatever reason go out and buy it whereas if people had been saying stuff like "digitally editing," "desiging," "CADing," or anything else stupid like that that person wouldn't necessarily get photoshop, whereas now it's almost surefire. Also, the slang usage of the word photoshop is merely giving credit to the quality of the program. I hope someone from Adobe reads this so they can take that ridiculous statement back.
 

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