On 6/25/11 7:48 PM, Richard Casady wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:57:01 -0400,
wrote:

On 6/25/11 11:09 AM, Richard Casady wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:43:17 -0400, wrote:

On 6/24/2011 11:52 PM, North Star wrote:
I say what I mean and I mean what I say!
It's known as gyproc up here... and since we have the gypsum mines

Mate, Gyproc is a trademark of an Australian sheetrock manufacturer.

Yes, and Sheetrock is the trademark of a US manufacturer of gypsum
board.

Casady

It's one of those trademarks that has slipped into general usage.

I had a 1939 book on how to drive tunnels. It referred to the common
90 pound vertical drilling hammer as a JackHammerTM [Ingersoll Rand],
some forty years after it was introduced. Now half the jackhammer
users don't even know who Ingersoll Rand is.

Casady


Here's a bit of history. In Germany and many other countries, Aspirin is
still a trademark of Bayer. But after WW I, Germany (and Bayer) lost the
trademark for aspirin in the US, Russia, England and one or two other
countries as a part of war reparations.


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