Critics, including the journal Nature, argued the name taxol had been used for more than two decades and in more than 600 scientific articles and suggested the trademark should not have been awarded and the BMS should renounce its rights to it.
Nature 誌などの批評家は、タキソールという名称は20年以上も600以上の科学論文で使用され続けて来ており、商標登録すべきでないと提案し、BMSはその権利を放棄すべきであると述べた。