Recently I was within earshot of Paramedics in the UK repeating the incorrect drug type over the phone to the awaiting Accident and Emergency department. They announced Clobazam instead of Clonazepam. Thankfully, I was still with the patient and jumped…
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Engineers and Scientists are People too.
Should you brand industrial and scientific products? How about embedded engineering items? Who is going to know? Who is going to care? I have had many a client over the years wrestle with these questions and comments, to which I…
Why you need to register your trademark
A lawyer once made it very clear to me. He said if you ever have a dispute over a name, and you end up in court, then the party with the registered trademark stands up and says: “Judge, I have…
Tagged with: domain protection, trademarking
Posted in Biotech Naming, Branding, Industrial Products Naming, Name Origins, Naming Education, Naming News, Naming Resources, Technology Names, Trademarks
Posted in Biotech Naming, Branding, Industrial Products Naming, Name Origins, Naming Education, Naming News, Naming Resources, Technology Names, Trademarks
Set of medical top level domains being released right now
I thought the sequencing of the release of new top level gTLD’s, as the domain extensions are properly called, was more random than I am seeing – but that might just be a coincidence. Regardless, if you are in the…
Tagged with: biotech naming, gTLD's, medical and healthcare naming
Posted in Biotech Naming, Branding, Food Names, Name Changes, Naming News, Technology Names, Trademarks
Posted in Biotech Naming, Branding, Food Names, Name Changes, Naming News, Technology Names, Trademarks
From SkyScan to Bruker MicroCT …why such a name change?
In all of my years of watching company naming, I still get some big surprises. And this one is my head-scratcher of the day. Why oh why would any company change from the super elegant SkyScan name to the awkward…
Aoptix’s Insight in the News
One of the joys of doing a lot of high tech and scientific naming is that we get to see so many leading edge products and solutions. Of course, we can’t talk about them for months (even years) sometimes. So…
Brighter Customers in Business Week News
It is always refreshing to see our clients in the popular business press, but especially gratifying when it is biotech companies doing such good work. In a great article titled Bug Assassins for Hire Marrone Bio Innovations gets good coverage…
Posted in Biotech Naming, Naming News
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