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At a certain point, the genericized trademark is the correct term, like how aspirin is the correct term (only term, really) for a specific preparation of acetylsalicylic acid, even though it was a trademark of the Bayer corporation.


Yeah. The same thing also happened to heroin, which was also a trademark of Bayer. ;)




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