On 6/27/11 10:35 AM, Richard Casady wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:54:45 -0700, "Califbill"
wrote:

"Richard Casady" wrote in message
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On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:24:00 -0400,
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On 6/25/11 7:48 PM, Richard Casady wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:57:01 -0400,
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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.

I always heard that they lost it from lack of sufficient effort to
defend it. The same people that invented aspirin invented heroin at
almost exactly the same time, late eighties, if I recall. I. G. Farben
I believe.

Casady

Reply:
No, Bayer figured out how to "buffer" aspirin. Aspirin has been known, but
not as aspirin for 1000's of years. Was willow bark in ancient times.

Wrong. They invented the stuff. Salicilic acid from willliow, or
anywhere else is not aspirin, anymore than that other acetyl
derivitive of an ancient painkiller, heroin, is morphine.

Casady



Another trademarked word that has come into common, uncapitalized,
non-trademarked usage:

kleenex.



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