Talk:Band-Aid

message: I think the giant image of a band-aid is a bit much.  Does some one want to shink it down, maybe?  I'm not quite sure how to do that. timrem 07:42, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: i also vote in favor of the ginormo bandaid, with reservations. an argument about wasted/expensive bandwidth could certainly be made, but for me personally i wish more pictures were this outsized. there are some pictures that i wish were larger, for more detail. the bigger the better! --dan 16:13, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: I tried to clean up the "Today" section but I'm not sure it belongs here at all.  It's basically just a list of products, which might be useful if we could get an impartial description of them.  johnmarkos 04:20, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Today 

message: Maybe this should be added to the page
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/279c849101acb010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Craigboy (talk • contribs) 03:30, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Seafood Bandage  

message: Shouldn't there be something about how (at least in the American market) the packaging changed from tin packages to paper boxes. This happened around 1999?
If so I can make an image of a Band Aid tin because I saved one (it's my change jar ;-) ). Guroadrunner 06:03, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Certainly, a picture of a band aid tin would be quite welcome.  I used to use those to hold other things (e.g. butterflies...) because they were nice packages.  It would also be great if someone could find and add a picture of one of the original band-aids from the 1920s. --Keflavich 15:24, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Packaging (tins vs. paper boxes) 

message: According to the article George J. Seabury and its sources, the precursor of the Band-Aid brand adhesive bandage was invented in 1874 by Seabury and Robert Wood Johnson I. Also according to that article, Mr. Johnson later founded Johnson & Johnson, which manufactures the Band-Aid. However, Band-Aid cites a Johnson & Johnson company website for its version of invention by a company employee (Earle Dickson) in 1920. Which the the historically accurate version? Geoff (talk) 17:45, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The claims at the Seabury article were a misunderstanding of the sources. What Seabury and Johnson invented was a new rubber-based adhesive for medical dressings, one cleaner and safer than previous versions. After Johnson split off from their firm and founded his own with his brother, Johnson & Johnson, the new company continued to use the formulation for various medical materials, including adhesive medical tape, which was what newlywed Earle Dickinson used when he created the self-contained adhesive bandage for his klutzy wife in 1920, and which quickly hit the market under the Band-Aid name. (Ironically, Dickinson was from the family of the co-founder of competing firm Becton-Dickinson.) I have adjusted the Seabury article to make it clearer. I especially removed the misleading image of a modern adhesive bandage, which was not invented until Seabury was dead.oknazevad (talk) 11:38, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of Invention - Contradictory Versions 

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message: Thomas Anderson invented the band aid. Earle Dickson perfected the design. 
202.173.201.138 (talk) 11:30, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. A boat that can float! (watch me float!) 14:26, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 19 September 2012 

message: They also come in bacon flavor!!!
67.172.198.250 (talk) 02:41, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 23 October 2012 

message: The intro stating that band-aid is a genericized trademark is not correct. Genericized trademark is a legal term. If a trademark becomes a generic name, the trademark is lost. That is a genericized trademark, a trademark that has been killed by people using the term generically and no one recognizing it as a trademark anymore.
If you follow the link to the wiki for genericized trademarks, it cites band-aid specifically as an example of a company altering their ad campaign precisely to avoid becoming a genericized trademark. So this is an article that claims band-aid is a genericized trademark, while linking to another article that claims band-aid is not a genericized trademark.
67.48.24.67 (talk) 23:49, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inaccurate statement of law in intro paragraph 

message: The opening says "Despite common misconception, Band-Aid is not a genericized trademark in the United States." That seems like a contradiction to me, and it also seems wrong. The citation shows that Band-Aid is still trademarked (from a legal standpoint) and thus I cannot violate the trademark if I am selling adhesive bandages. However, it is extremely common for Americans to refer to generic adhesive bandages as Band-Aids, usually not capitalized and often not hyphenated, such as "bandaids". It is even used in idioms, like "bandaids don't heal bullet wounds." Just because the trademark is enforceable (in a legal sense) doesn't mean it has not taken on a generic meaning in the public mind. The fact that the sentence acknowledges this is a "common misconception" underscores the fact that band-aid has firmly entrenched itself as a genericized trademark. 146.115.179.89 (talk) 04:47, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Bandaid is indeed a genericized trademark in the US. Lizard (talk) 02:21, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: If it were a true genericized trademark, any one could sell a product with the name. I'd really like to see someone try without string a call from Johnson & Johnson's lawyers. It may be a commonly misused trademark, but it is not a true generic trademark. oknazevad (talk) 11:30, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  I think Band-Aid is a genericized trademark