Talk:benzonase

RFV discussion: November 2021
This entry relates to a registered trademark (see e.g. https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=73791115&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch). According to the criteria for inclusion (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Criteria_for_inclusion#Brand_names), brand names should only be included if it can be objectively demonstrated that the brand name has entered the lexicon. Three independent (unrelated to the trademark owner) and durably archived citations spanning a period of at least three years should be provided. The inclusion of a brand name without such verification risks turning Wiktionary into a means of promoting a commercial enterprise.
 * There seems to be fairly abundant use of benzonase (ie, without capitalization) in running text to be found at Google Books. Some of the usage may even predate the use of the term in capitalized form. DCDuring (talk) 15:50, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

cited Kiwima (talk) 20:49, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I disagree. I see misspelling of a capitalized trademark.  And we're supposed to wait a week, not five hours, before closing as passed.  Vox Sciurorum (talk) 20:52, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Is everyone who spells it kleenex now wrong? If not, at what point did they become right? DCDuring (talk) 22:58, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
 * It is overwhelmingly spelled without a capital and has been the case since soon after the product was introduced. DTLHS (talk) 00:48, 18 November 2021 (UTC)


 * While it did originate as a trademark (application was filed in 1989, registered in 1991, and pace Ngram Viewer the earliest hits do seem to be 1989), and the earliest uses wouldn't pass BRAND ("Benzon Biosystems is selling Benzonase, a genetically activator (TPA) engineered endonuclease enzyme which dogrades all forms of DNA and RNA"), I agree that many later uses, uncapitalized and even pluralized, with no indication it's a commercial product or what, exactly, it is or does, pass BRAND, like many uses of kleenex. - -sche (discuss) 18:27, 20 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Is a generic synonym or another (originally-)brand name? ("Benzon Pharma" or "Benzon Biosystems" seems to be the maker.) - -sche (discuss) 18:34, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 18:33, 26 November 2021 (UTC)