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From: werner@aecom.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Tradenames used as generic nouns
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Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 11:30:36 EST
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> Are any of the above tradenames in danger of becoming "aspirins" (aspirin
> used to be a tradename of the Bayer company)?  Can anyone think of any I
> have left out?
		> Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)

Aspirin as a trademark was confiscated (along with the process) by the US
government during World War I and distributed to various chemical companies.
It was not a evolutionary process. (And in Europe, Bayer SG makes Aspirin,
and everyone else sells ASA (Acetyl Salicylic Acid)

> Concerning Frigidaire -- last year I had a landlady who had emigrated from
France (OK, I had a real concierge).  When our refrigerator broke, she
was constantly talking about our "frigidaire," so the use of the term as
as generic for refrgierator is still common outside the US (France at least)

Finally, there was an article in the Sunday Daily News recently about how
one was not playing Scrabble. One was playing:
	Scrabble (R) Brand Crossword Game
This is so Scrabble won't become generic like "Monopoly."


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				Craig Werner
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