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- From: umjaco19@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Martin Andreas Jacobs)
- Subject: Re: Things go better with cola-flavored soft drinks
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- References: <1992Nov17.233643.27443@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> <By2Ay4.5rF@techbook.com> <28498@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 06:32:11 GMT
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- In article <28498@castle.ed.ac.uk> benha@castle.ed.ac.uk (Ben Hambidge) writes:
- >In article <By2Ay4.5rF@techbook.com> dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) writes:
- >
- >>1. Aspirin has only lost its tm status in the US. In other countries
- >>it's still a trademark.
- >
- >Was aspirin a trademark?
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- It still *is* a trademark in Germany.
- I suppose that is also the reason, why it is about ten times as expensive
- there as it is in the UK.
- As far as I remember Bayer, the manufacturer of Aspirin, lost their
- trademark rights outside of Germany after the First World War.
-
- >Ben Hambidge.
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- Martin
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- ><benha@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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- Martin Jacobs | Comp. Sci. III | <Martin_Jacobs@Umanitoba.CA>
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