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Xref: sserve gnu.misc.discuss:6224 comp.org.eff.talk:9055 comp.unix.bsd:5072 comp.os.mach:2147 misc.int-property:524 Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach,misc.int-property,alt.suit.att-bsdi Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!olymp!sfb256!volker 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> Sender: usenet@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany References: <18ns8rINNd81@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Sep11.084516.16908@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1992Sep11.123540.19263@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> Distribution: inet Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 19:48:48 GMT Lines: 23 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 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bitnet: UNM409@DBNRHRZ1 Volker A. Brandt UUCP: ...!unido!DBNRHRZ1.bitnet!unm409 Angewandte Mathematik Internet: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de (Bonn, Germany)