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
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”.
The terminology is now one of the few differences between the INN and BAN systems of names.[72] Although European health professionals and scientists preferentially use the term “adrenaline”, the converse is true among American health professionals and scientists. Nevertheless, even among the latter, receptors for this substance are called “adrenergic receptors” or “adrenoceptors”, and pharmaceuticals that mimic its effects are often called “adrenergics”. The history of adrenaline and epinephrine is reviewed by Rao.[73]
Seems like a couple people were working on this around the same time.
Extracts of the adrenal gland were first obtained by Polish physiologist Napoleon Cybulski in 1895.[94] These extracts, which he called nadnerczyna (“adrenalin”), contained adrenaline and other catecholamines.[95] American ophthalmologist William H. Bates discovered adrenaline’s usage for eye surgeries prior to 20 April 1896.[96] In 1897, John Jacob Abel (1857–1938), the father of modern pharmacology, found a natural substance produced by the adrenal glands that he named epinephrine.
I’m more surprised by Dremel, Styrofoam, Freon, and Onesies on the list! I had no clue they were all trademarked.
Huh, I had no idea Dremel was genericized
It’s still a protected trademark, just that people have called everything a dremel
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.
