I hear Mylar name has ben dropped from polyester products in favor of Melinex (Teijin Films). I can't find any evidence of this. It makes sense dropping one since there would be two general brand names for polyester film from one company. OTOH, Mylar is/was a household name.
Can anyone clear this up? Thanks, John
Who knows what's going on. There is this joint venture:
Maybe their lawyers thought that "Mylar" was becoming generic, much like kleenex, aspirin, nylon...I know I've heard some awful abuses of the term coming from people without a polymers background.
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After losing nylon and neoprene, DuPont has been very diligent on pointing out proper trademark usage, e.g. an ad or company document must say "Mylar" polyester film. You cannot use the trademark by itself. Here, in a ng, no big deal but if someone asks a polymer question they should mention the polymer not just the trademark. I know of other merged groups that make the same material under different trademarks. One may be well known in Europe and other in US.
I knew about nylon, but not neoprene.
I had all of the legal requirements drilled into me back in my 3M days (as you did in your Dupont days, I'm sure!), about how the tradename is always to be thought of as an adjective and not a noun: "Scotch Brand Masking Tape". The lawyers significantly delayed 3M in having a strong web presence because the marketers wanted to have
I notice that
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Hi John,
(I'm sure this was posted in jest, but...) I'd suspect its more about how each webmaster prefers to administer their online content. 3M lawyers are pure demons, or so I'm told :-)
Regards R. David Zopf Bomar Specialties Co.
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