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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's exactly what happened to trademarks like "aspirin" in the USA - the trademark holder failed to take someone to court who marketed their own make of acetylsalicylic acid (that's what aspirin is) under the name "aspirin", and the trademark holder lost the rights to the name as a result.
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That's not what happened at all. Aspirin lost trademark status in the US, France, UK, and Russia at the end of World War I as part of the Treaty of Versailles.