Timeline for How can I safely use "Thalidomide" in my novel while respecting the trademark?
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| Mar 22, 2019 at 23:07 | vote | accept | Margaret Belt | ||
| Mar 21, 2019 at 20:00 | comment | added | Valorum | Unless you're actually intending to market a drug under the name Thalidomide, it seem unlikely in the extreme that the rights holders to the (notorious) name would make any effort to defend their mark. | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWriting/status/1108790545386782720 | ||
| Mar 21, 2019 at 17:38 | comment | added | Mr.Mindor | @Strawberry as Damila mentioned in a comment, thalidomide itself is still available, though through a tightly controlled program: thalomidrems.com | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 17:37 | comment | added | ShadoCat | If you are worried about libel laws, they have to prove malice. Just look up the movie Absence of Malice for a crash course in that bit of law. | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 17:36 | comment | added | ShadoCat | Trademarks do not prevent you from talking about something. I can refer to a car as a Ford Mustang in a story (and even have it break down and cause 20 deaths) without any consequence. What I cannot do is create a vehicle and call it a Ford Mustang. | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 17:15 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | Just in case this wasn’t clear, trademark fundamentally doesn’t mean that you’re not allowed to use the trademarked term. There are specific restrictions but those don’t prevent you from general usage. In practice, care is obviously still advisable. | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 16:15 | answer | added | Cyn | timeline score: 9 | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 15:52 | history | edited | Cyn |
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| Mar 21, 2019 at 14:47 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Mar 21, 2019 at 14:34 | answer | added | Rasdashan | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 9:47 | comment | added | Strawberry | While derived from thalidomide, I think the class of drugs used today in immunology, like ienalidomide, are significantly different, not just in name. BTW, I've trademarked the Plague(TM). Royalties please. | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 9:43 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Mar 21, 2019 at 6:30 | comment | added | Margaret Belt | @Damila it's not "revealing" or smack talking the company that worries me. It's potentially profiting off of a fictitious story featuring the medicine that makes me skittish | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 2:17 | answer | added | Vincent Wiley | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 1:49 | comment | added | Damila | BTW, thalidomide is not the trade name, it is the generic. And the disaster it was is commonly known. I can’t see how it would hurt the company to “reveal” that because for a patient to use it 1. They have something severe and 2. They can only get it through a special program and have to sign all sorts of stuff and be on 2 forms of birth control, etc. So you would not be defaming it in anyway. (I am not a lawyer or author.). Good luck on Writing SE. i lurk there sometimes. I dkn’t write but it is interesting to see what writers need to thibk about. | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 1:48 | answer | added | Sven Yargs | timeline score: 29 | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 22:57 | comment | added | jlovegren | perhaps the name is used widely enough that it can pass as a generic term, like ziploc bag or garbage disposall | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 22:55 | history | asked | Margaret Belt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |