[fakelvis]

…clearly EMI should not have been awarded a trademark on the term "entrepreneur" in the first place.

They didn't get awarded the trademark in the first place.

As the article says, Chase Revel, who started Entrepreneur in the '70s, registered the trademark for "entrepreneur" and began to enforce the mark. The trademark went along with the magazine when it was sold in '87.

[SoftwareMaven]

Don't you think this might be taking pedantry a bit too far? While technically true, it doesn't really add value to the conversation.

[fakelvis]

No, I don't think this is taking pedantry a bit too far.

As other replies to the parent comment show, people seem to feel that this sort of abuse (meaning the registering of absurdly generic trademarks) is typical of a large organisation like EMI.

The fact is, this is a false belief (at least in this case).

It's false as EMI didn't trademark the word. We can go around blaming cultures like EMI's for mistakes made by individuals decades earlier, but I don't think that's a valid way to argue. Do you?