Talk:Rollerblade

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The Philanthropy section should be deleted — a $5,000 donation is not relevant. --216.15.25.242 (talk) 03:41, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

This article reads exactly like an advertisement. Someone slap them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by darkfuzz (talk • contribs) 17:27, 19 January 2007

How are roller blades related to science oither that acceleration, momentum, and motion? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.8.191.2 (talk) 18:02, 10 April 2006

This should redirect to inline skates... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.130.160.229 (talk) 08:36, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Why have they only refereed to the TRS Inline Skate in the main title? It has absolutely no context Geosak (talk) 18:06, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

I thought RollerBlade were famous for defending their brand against "generification" by issuing cease-and-desist notices to all and sundry. When did this change? Dominic Cronin (talk) 05:26, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

"Peanuts"...

...mentioned Rollerblades as a generic trademark in late 1996: http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1996/12/27 A²Kafir (and...?) 01:27, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

This was literally the first generic trademark that came to mind when I was trying to find the technical term for brands which have become common nouns. Without research, it's fine to leave the page parked here if no court has ruled it a generic trademark yet but a it absolutely is in the most common English dialect used by Wiki readers and editors and research will eventually show that and b it is, in any case, a great fear for the company and its efforts in that department should be noted, with a link to the generic trademark article somewhere besides the talk page. — LlywelynII 03:58, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

RollerBlading

Add the wipo rollerblading case from 20+ years ago wipo.int D2000-0427 174.255.64.60 (talk) 08:49, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Scott Olsen on Shark Tank

Entrepreneur Scott Olsen appeared on Shark Tank (US - season 3) [Episode 313], with a pitch for his company Skyride. More info: https://www.sharktankblog.com/business/skyride/

Not sure if this should be included in the wiki, just thought I'd place it here. eyeCommented (talk) 20:49, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Who were the founders

There has been several rounds of edits in the past adding and removing Brennan Olson as a co-founder of Ole's Innovative Sports which eventually became Rollerblade, Inc. See this, this, and this for instance. All sources cited here, and dozens more at History of inline skates consistently show Scott as the founder, even though Brennan were clearly instrumental in some of the biggest hits of Rollerblade, including the Lightning TRS as attested by the groundbreaking but under-appreciated patent behind the Lightning, cited multiple times in Inline skates. But an inventor does not a founder make. Founding and ownership of a company is a legal issue, and not determined by the inventorship of products.

To avoid further arguments, I am just going to remove the founder attribute from the company template. And I am going to fix this short article content to be accurate. I'll add additional references, not that existing ones are not enough. Fred Hsu (talk) 01:28, 5 August 2025 (UTC)