--- Mary Chiodo <mary@...> wrote:
>
> The real issue that seems to be overlooked in this thread is that
> intellectual property rights HAVE to be protected and defended or
> they can be legally overturned.
Not overlooked -- we just haven't mentioned it yet, and you just did,
thank you. Hal did mention that "aspirin" was once trademarked, but
now is [mostly] in the public domain. I already knew that was because
the trademark was not widely defended. There are other examples of
trademarks being lost to the public domain, much to the company's
later chagrin, because those trademarks were not defended/protected.
I found this on Wikipedia:
The brand name Aspirin was coined by the Bayer company of Germany. In
some countries the name is used as a generic term for the drug rather
than the manufacturer'
remains a trademark, the initialism ASA (for acetylsalicylic acid) is
used as a generic term.
Adrienne
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