# Bizarre Non-Trademark Infringing Names for Popular Products **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 28, 2019, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-non-trademark-infringing-names-for-popular-products/834627 "2019-05-28T05:04:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-non-trademark-infringing-names-for-popular-products/834627/61 "2019-06-01T22:26:49Z")
> [@CurtC](#): > > Some of the surprising ones I’ve read in the past that lost their trademark are (off the top of my head): Gasoline, Kerosene, Trampoline, Aspirin, Oatmeal. Asprin was made by Germans, and they lost control of their patents and trademarks during WWI. In Aus, Mr Nicholls made his fortune out of asprin, which, post war, was called Aspro. Which, in Aus, then (informally) became the generic term for Asprin… Imagine a world without headache tablets! I think that for a lot of people, asprin was a major advance of civilization. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-non-trademark-infringing-names-for-popular-products/834627.md?page=3)