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i´m not sure how international law works but once a name has entered common use and becomes more widely recognised for the alternative meanin then i believe the original loses claim on the word. some examples that are similar but not the same are thermos and escalator which are examples of brand names which became the item itself and both lost the right to the names.
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mother nature made the aeroplane, and the submarine sandwich, with the steady hands and dead eye of a remarkable sculptor.
she shed her mountain turning training wheels, for the convenience of the moving sidewalk, that delivers the magnetic monkey children through the mouth of impossible calendar clock, into the devil's manhole cauldron.
physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?
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