VELCRO Brand/YouTube The legal team at Velcro is, according to a new tongue-in-cheek video, fed up with people misusing the brand's name to refer to shoes and wallets that use generic fastening ...

Before Velcro’s Patent Expired, It Was a Niche Product Most People Hadn’t Heard Of The hook-and-loop tape’s moment in the sun came after others were free to copy it ...

Lawyers from VELCRO want us to stop using the name as a verb and noun, since it violates trademarks — as they explain in a hilarious video.

He dubbed it "Velcro" after "velvet" and "crochet," the French word for "hook." De Mestral seemed to be on his way to a huge success, and large-scale production finally began in the mid-50s.

A tiny orphaned sloth changes the course of a woman's life. In 2000 in the jungles of Panama, a young journalist, named Ana, has a chance encounter with a tiny orphaned sloth, which she names Velcro.

The original Velcro design of numerous tiny hooks and loops that can be pushed together and pulled apart to be used as a fastening system was originally inspired by plants.

What if instead of allowing negative experiences to stick to us like velcro, we let them glide off of us like Teflon?

In 2000, in the jungles of Panama, a young journalist, named Ana, has a chance encounter with a tiny orphaned sloth, which she names Velcro. For nearly ...

With the help of this natural Velcro, the ants are able to catch up to 13,350 times their own weight, and probably more. In contrast, other known species of symbiotic ants can hold less than 2,000 ...