On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:39:33PM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: > Probably because if you don't protect your trademarks in this country, > they fall into the public domain. That's why you can say "asprin" > when you want to cure a headache (because Bayer didn't defend its > trademark) . . .
Urban myth. Actually the trademark was invalidated after World War One (in the Versaille Treaty, according to some sources I've seen) because Bayer was a German company. It's still a valid mark in Europe. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con's Science and Technology Programming <http://www.iconsf.org/>
