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Having had to come up with a name for a corporate product and deal with things like trademarking, I can understand why they seem to repurpose names frequently. It is enormously time consuming to generate, vet, and apply for a trademark. There are so many other products and names and trademarks out there that it’s no wonder drug companies end up with unpronounceable gibberish for new product names.



This makes sense. I guess I didn't take namespace or government bureaucracy into consideration.

Come to think of it open source software has this issue too where two projects exist with the same name.




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