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- From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt )
- Subject: Re: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.194848.2106@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
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- Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany
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- In article <1992Sep11.123540.19263@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> greg@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu (Greg Trotter) writes:
- [...]
- >someone else used the name Asprin. Bayer sued, and *lost* because they
- >had not taken appropriate steps to express Asprin as a brand name instead
- >of just a plain ol' noun.
-
- This is not true. After world war II, the US occupational administration
- seized all patents and trademarks, declared them forfeit for German companies,
- and offered them to US companies for nominal license fees (payable to the
- US government, of course).
-
- So, while the Soviet dragged off watches and toilet bowls, the US got hold of
- a lot of the *real* good stuff :-/ In most other countries, the name Aspirin
- (sic) is still a protected trademark.
-
- -- Volker
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