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- From: sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth)
- Subject: Re: Trademark legends
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- References: <8ma3VB1w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz> <1992Dec21.215401.7781@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> <1992Dec22.143853.4472@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 09:08:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.143853.4472@pony.Ingres.COM> sweeney@Ingres.COM (Tony Sweeney) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec21.215401.7781@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- >>
- >>Nope. Todd is either trolling, or very confused. There is no way to
- >>trademark a commonly used term. For example, Bayer lost their "aspirin"
- >>trademank due to common usage.
- >>
- >I vaguely recall reading (tm) that Bayer (a German company) lost their
- >exclusive right to produce and trademark Aspirin as part of the Versaille
- >treaty on reparations for WW1. Anyone remember different?
- Even stranger, I read on the net (so it must be true!) somewhere a story
- alleging that Bayer was in operation before and during WWII, making not
- aspirin but such nasty military chemical products as Taubin and Zyklon,
- which were nerve gases. No reference to the Bayer company appears in any
- accounts of the Nuremburg trials.
-
- Simon
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