Definition of "genericness" [genericness]

• The state or condition of being generic. (noun)
• In United States trademark law, the characteristic of a trademark being generic, and therefore unregistrable. (noun)

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• "Filed by a rival organization working the same territory (yes!), it's based on two arguments: "Fraud" on the PTO about how and when the mark was first used and whether the first use claimed is really for the pending DAY mark (indeed there's a lot of back and forth on this topic in the application archive), and "genericness" - i.e., that the "mark" will never acquire distinctiveness and never can and that the opposer will be harmed by the registration by being unable to talk about … that awareness thing."
• "My beef with it is not so much a matter of my personal taste so as the genericness of the choice."
• "Since Dell has attempted a sweeping trademark of its own, I wonder how the USPTO will look at its argument that the trademark should be cancled because of the “genericness” of the term netbook."