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Comment by merelysounds

Related, Google wrote a blog post[1] on a similar topic in 2006. As far as I know they've successfully avoided genericide and a 2017 lawsuit[2] ended with a ruling in their favor.

Also, unsurprisingly, Adobe has a whole section in their trademarks page about photoshopping[3]:

> Correct: The image was enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software.

> Incorrect: The image was photoshopped.

[1]: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/do-you-google.html

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_litigation#Genericide_o...

[3]: https://www.adobe.com/legal/permissions/trademarks.html

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