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> People buy Tylenol and Advil not Aspirin and Ibruprofen. Aspirin is still a registered trademark of the acetylsalicylic acid in many countries and it's owned
by jedmeyers 10y ago
> People buy Tylenol and Advil not Aspirin and Ibruprofen.
Aspirin is still a registered trademark of the acetylsalicylic acid in many countries and it's owned by Bayer AG. The generic name of Tylenol is acetaminophen (paracetamol).
- abduhl 10y agoAspirin lost its trademark status in the major Allied nations during WW2 when their assets were confiscated.
- lantastic 10y agoTrademarks were part of the confiscation during WW2, but Aspirin lost its trademark status in US long before that[1]. [1] https://cyber.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/domain/tmcases/bayer.htm https://cyber.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/domain/tmcases/b...