In the US, the Trademark Act of 1946 allows companies to own trademarks, which are words or images that represent specific products. “Q-tips,” for example, refers to products made specifically by Unilever, the company that owns the trademark. However, the Trademark Act of 1946 also allows a trademark to be taken away if it ceases to be specific. For example, “cellophane” was once a trademark for a particular brand of food wrapping material. Over time, though, people started using “cellophane” to refer to many different brands. Because the word had become generic, a court decided that it could no longer be owned as a trademark.
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easyWhich choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
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It begins the text’s discussion of the fact that trademarks can be taken away.
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It adds to the text’s description of products made by Unilever.
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It completes the text’s comparison of trademark laws in the US to laws in other countries.
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It concludes the text’s argument about how the Trademark Act of 1946 can be improved.