Quote Originally Posted by LasVegas View Post
Hate: WebEx
The term WebEx, when referring to online meetings and conferencing, is actually a proprietary trademark of Cisco. This is a term that people have begun to use generically to refer to any online meeting or web-based conferencing. If Cisco isn't careful, they could lose their goodwill and equity in the name if it is determined to be a generic term along the same lines as elevator and aspirin, once proprietary trademarks in the US (Aspirin remains a trademark in Canada and perhaps elsewhere, owned by Bayer). The owners of the marks Rollerblade, Xerox, and Kleenex have fought a similar battle over the years.