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I couldn't really find any details about any of these cases. Some of the names there too are pretty strange like "Tobaccopedia" and "Kraft LLC vs Kraft ULC". UL

I couldn't really find any details about any of these cases. Some of the names there too are pretty strange like "Tobaccopedia" and "Kraft LLC vs Kraft ULC". ULCs (as far as I know) are a Canadian thing and I highly doubt I can just go an open a company called "Cocacola ULC" in Canada? Those examples look like LLM generated nonsense, though correct me if I'm wrong. The example usually taught in school for this sort of thing is the trademark for Aspirin. Aspirin is a Bayer brand name for acetylsalicylic acid, but Bayer didn't defend its trademark in most of the world. In most countries (including the US) courts ruled that Aspirin is a generic term and anybody could use it. That's not the case for say Tylenol (acetaminophen) or Advil (ibuprofen) for example.

kijiki 2y ago
"German pharmaceutical firm Bayer was forced to give up its rights to the Aspirin trademark in the Treaty of Versailles, in 1919, which followed its defeat in World War One (it also lost the rights to Heroin, but in hindsight it's probably not so upset about that). The punishment only applied to aspirin's use in victor nations the USA, UK and France, leaving Bayer's trademark still enforceable elsewhere." https://www.bbc.com/news/business-27026704 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-27026704
- eddythompson80 2y ago
  “Elsewhere” being literally meaning else where. I wasn’t alive in 1919, though my understanding from the literature is that “the American public didn’t like the German”. Like how they didn’t like the Irish before that. Then how they don’t like the Japanese in 1940s, the north Koran in 1956, then the Vietnamese in 1950-60s, then the Arabs in the 1970s-2000s, then the Chinese in the 2010s-today.