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Originally Posted by sigcurious
While the point is valid, particularly for aspirin(As there are other brands that use the worth aspirin in their names for the same drug)....
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Which those companies can do only because Bayer is no longer able to protect its trademark in "Aspirin."
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Originally Posted by sigcurious
...Other examples being, to xerox, velcro, jell-o, googling, qtips. etc. These were all brought about inadvertently by the public as a matter of those products or companies being the first or most recognized producers of that class of goods. Rather than companies intentionally infringing on IP.
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It can be very much a "chicken-or-egg" matter: one reason that trademark litigation can be so complex and expensive; and a reason that owners of trademark who want to protect them are so aggressive about litigating infringements.