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- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!wildcan!sq!msb
- From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
- Subject: Re: Trademark legends
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.071018.10333@sq.sq.com>
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
- References: <1992Dec22.143853.4472@pony.Ingres.COM> <28116@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <C01xp6.GGp@rahul.net>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 07:10:18 GMT
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- > The German-based firm owned the brand name Aspirin at the start of
- > World War I, but following Germany's defeat, the trademark became
- > part of the country's war reparations demanded by the Allies. At the
- > Treaty of Versailles in June 1919, Germany surrendered the brand
- > name to France, England, the United States, and Russia.
-
- This is curious, if true, because Bayer *still* owns the trademark
- Aspirin in Canada (other brands of acetylsalicylic acid are usually
- labeled ASA).
-
- From 1867 until 1931, Canada had a limited independence from the UK;
- basically we were independent as regards internal matters, but Canada
- was automatically included in the state of war declared in 1914.
- It occurs to me that possibly Canada was automatically included in
- the Treaty of Versailles as well, but that this inclusion did not
- cover the trademark thing because it was considered an internal matter.
- --
- Mark Brader "... a movement is already under way to declare
- Toronto December 7 an annual legal holiday in commemoration
- utzoo!sq!msb of the opening of hostilities."
- msb@sq.com -- Ring Lardner (in the New York Times), 1931
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