Editing Aspirin (section)

=== Trademark ===
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| image1 = Bayer Aspirin and store-brand generic on Canadian drugstore shelf.jpg
| alt1 = Four boxes of medication on a store shelf above price tags. The two on the left are yellow with "Aspirin" in bold black type and explanatory text in English on the top box and French on the bottom. The two on the right are slightly smaller and white with the word "Life" in the corner inside a red circle. The text, in French on top and English below, describes the medication as "acetylsalicylic acid tablets"
| caption1 = In Canada and many other countries, "Aspirin" remains a trademark, so generic aspirin is sold as "ASA" ('''a'''cetyl'''s'''alicylic '''a'''cid).
| image2 = Bayer and store-brand aspirin containers on US drugstore shelf.jpg
| alt2 = Four plastic bottles of medication on another drugstore shelf above their price tags. The two on the left are yellow with the word "Bayer" prominent in black type; above small type describes the product as "genuine aspirin". On the left are two clear plastic bottles with the Rite Aid drugstore chain logo on their yellow labels, which describe the product as "pain relief aspirin".
| caption2 = In the US, "aspirin" is a generic name.
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Bayer lost its trademark for aspirin in the United States and some other countries in actions taken between 1918 and 1921 because it had failed to use the name for its own product correctly and had for years allowed the use of "Aspirin" by other manufacturers without defending the intellectual property rights.<ref>{{cite court |litigants=Bayer Co. v. United Drug Co. |vol=272 |reporter=F. |opinion=505 |pinpoint=p.512 |court=S.D.N.Y |date=1921 |url=https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/domain/tmcases/bayer.htm }}</ref> Aspirin is a [[generic trademark]] in many countries.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.genericides.org/trademark/aspirin |title= Has aspirin become a generic trademark? |access-date= 17 February 2021 |website= genericides.org |date= 25 March 2020 |archive-date= 5 March 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210305221908/https://genericides.org/trademark/aspirin |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title = Scientific style and format: the CBE manual for authors, editors, and publishers | collaboration = CBE Style Manual Committee | vauthors = Huth EJ |publisher = Cambridge University Press |year = 1994 |page = 164 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=PoFJ-OhE63UC&pg=PA164 |isbn = 978-0-521-47154-1 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151015200126/https://books.google.com/books?id=PoFJ-OhE63UC&pg=PA164 |archive-date = 15 October 2015|bibcode = 1994ssfc.book.....S }}</ref> Aspirin, with a capital "A", remains a registered trademark of Bayer in Germany, Canada, Mexico, and in over 80 other countries, for acetylsalicylic acid in all markets, but using different packaging and physical aspects for each.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/aspirin-the-versatile-drug-1.822289 | work=CBC News | title=Aspirin: the versatile drug | date=28 May 2009 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161106123159/http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/aspirin-the-versatile-drug-1.822289 | archive-date=6 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Cheng TO | title = The history of aspirin | journal = Texas Heart Institute Journal | volume = 34 | issue = 3 | pages = 392–3 | year = 2007 | pmid = 17948100 | pmc = 1995051 }}</ref>