TIL "adrenalin" is a protected trademark owned by Endo International
The following three lists of generic and genericized trademarks are:
marks which were originally legally protected trademarks, but have been genericized and have lost their legal status due to becoming generic terms,
marks which have been abandoned and are now generic terms
marks which are still legally protected as trademarks, at least in some jurisdictions
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That's what happens when you get a trademark approved that matches the scientific name for the hormone. It should be genericized.
Scientific names should not be allowed to be trademarked. That should include names that are close enough to it that it could be litigated if it were a trade mark.
Actually, someone synthesized something very similar in 1897 and named it "epinephrine". 4 years later, someone independently synthesized it and trademarked it as "adrenaline".
Seems like a couple people were working on this around the same time.
I'm more surprised by Dremel, Styrofoam, Freon, and Onesies on the list! I had no clue they were all trademarked.
Bubble wrap and realtor surprised me
Huh, I had no idea Dremel was genericized
It's still a protected trademark, just that people have called everything a dremel
What about adrenalin?
Apparently, whoever added this was an awful devil who decided that adding false information with sources that only sourced the history and usage of the term was a good idea.
The trademark is adrenalin, not adrenaline, and owned by Endo, not Pfizer. I have edited the title and am editing the article as we type. Apparently there's someone who posted to the talk page about this back in may but didn't get noticed.
This was changed on 4 May 2023 by someone who thought he was correcting a typo.
I think I just had a glitch in the matrix moment I swear to God I opened this thread and the title said Pfizer, bug after I read your comment I scrolled up and it said Endo International.
like I said, I edited the title
It updates in real time with edits and additions, same with comment replies and stuff that come in while you are looking at a thread.
I don’t think most people know about that feature of Lemmy and the mobile clients (honestly dunno about web clients), but when you are chronically online you see things update in real time quite a bit. It’s super cool :)
I’ve never heard the term “genericized trademarks”
I’ve always heard and read it as proprietary eponyms.
*proprietary epinephrinyms
This is why I prefer open-source facial tissue. Products like xclean and tiOSSue.