The copyeditor is correct--ChapStick is a trademark belonging to Evermark LLC. "Lip balm" would be the general term for a product like this.

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ChapSick is a "Merican brand, and trademarked. Lip balm.

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I would argue that chapstick has become a term of its own like kleenex, champagne, google and xerox. Their trademark attorneys might disagree, but they aren't in charge of language.

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I hear the words kindergarten and schadenfreude were a big success, so you could always borrow "Lippenpflegestift" from German. (Be aware that we mostly say "Labello" though, which is also a brandname-gotten-generic)

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“Chap stick” should have been the term for the cane a Victorian gentleman uses in bartitsu fighting.

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