Germany lost the word aspirin as a war reparation, and never got it back. 🇩🇪
Bayer registered 𝗔𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻 as a trademark in 1899, and for a while it was one of the most valuable brand names on earth.
Then the First World War ended, and the peace settlement did something most people have never heard about. Germany was made to surrender trademarks along with everything else.
Bayer's American arm had already been seized in 1917 and auctioned off the following December for 5.3 million dollars. Britain had stripped the name during the war. Russia went the same way.
So across most of the English-speaking world, aspirin gradually stopped being a brand and became simply the name of the drug.
Bayer spent decades trying to undo it. In the mid-nineties it finally bought back the right to use its own name in America, but the word itself was gone for good. You cannot un-generic a word.
In Germany it never happened. Walk into a German pharmacy today and 𝘈𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘯 is still a Bayer product with a capital A. The generic is sold as 𝘈𝘚𝘚.
@Schluter3Jorg @Maks_NAFO_FELLA Morgen hat er es vergessen: ja
behauptet das Gegenteil: auch ja
Wie schaffen wir, dass er es behält und für ihn wichtig ist? Sein Name muss rauf.
@anja7943@bundeskanzler@POTUS Ach, nun lass doch mal! Es ist doch total nett, den Donald mit 'nem T-Shirt der "Mannschaft" glücklich zu machen. Und allemal billiger als ein vergoldeter Airbus ist es auch.
@AdamKinzinger The US deployed over 16 million soldiers during the Second World War. Russia has deployed around 2.2 million soldiers in Ukraine. This puts these casualty figures in a completely different light: 6% versus 63% casualties.