system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How come "Frisbee" hasn't become a generic trademark like Band-Aid or Xerox despite the fact that everyone calls every flying disc a Frisbee?
gpt
Because Wham-O protects their mark by vigourously suing the pants off of any one even remotely trying to profit off the name. One of their more well known suits was against the movie "Secret of NIMH" where the main character's name had to be changed from Mrs Frisby to Mrs  Brisby.