The inventor formed Velcro Industries to manufacture his invention. Mestral was selling over sixty million yards of Velcro per year. Today it is a multi-million dollar industry. Not bad for an invention based on Mother Nature. This illustrates a problem inventors often face.
Names can become generic terms.
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