Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 I know we don't typically use the ® symbol, but I have been using it for brand drugs that begin with a lower case letter. Like: femhrt® Do you guys think that's a reasonable thing to do? I'm just trying to make it clear to the reader that it is a brand name, you know? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rennie My Home Page: http://www.renesue.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Re: Femhrt In a message dated 2/4/03 8:59:26 AM Mountain Standard Time, mgrant@... writes: > , No, rather than it's being an abbreviation, it is femhrt, per Drake & > Drake, Margaret > I second that, plus I saw a sample bottle at one of my offices and it said femhrt (not capped). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 In this particular case, whoever signs the paycheck would not apply since it's a documented brand name, in which case any other spelling is wrong UNLESS by some chance another company has a different registered trademark name. Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Re: Femhrt A brand name must be spelled exactly as written. In other words, the registered trade name in this case is femhrt, not Femhrt, FemHrt, or any combination thereof. I realize the logic of wanting to cap the first letter since that's how most brand names are, but this is the exception Hope that unconfuses you Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 In this particular case, whoever signs the paycheck would not apply since it's a documented brand name, in which case any other spelling is wrong UNLESS by some chance another company has a different registered trademark name. Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Re: Femhrt A brand name must be spelled exactly as written. In other words, the registered trade name in this case is femhrt, not Femhrt, FemHrt, or any combination thereof. I realize the logic of wanting to cap the first letter since that's how most brand names are, but this is the exception Hope that unconfuses you Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 In this particular case, whoever signs the paycheck would not apply since it's a documented brand name, in which case any other spelling is wrong UNLESS by some chance another company has a different registered trademark name. Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Re: Femhrt A brand name must be spelled exactly as written. In other words, the registered trade name in this case is femhrt, not Femhrt, FemHrt, or any combination thereof. I realize the logic of wanting to cap the first letter since that's how most brand names are, but this is the exception Hope that unconfuses you Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 Excellent idea if that symbol is available. Unfortunately, my employer's software doesn't have that capability. We don't have bold, italics, superscript or subscript available, as I've probably mentioned before, let alone any symbols. Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Re: Femhrt In a message dated 2/4/03 8:59:26 AM Mountain Standard Time, mgrant@... writes: > , No, rather than it's being an abbreviation, it is femhrt, per Drake & > Drake, Margaret > I second that, plus I saw a sample bottle at one of my offices and it said femhrt (not capped). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 Excellent idea if that symbol is available. Unfortunately, my employer's software doesn't have that capability. We don't have bold, italics, superscript or subscript available, as I've probably mentioned before, let alone any symbols. Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Re: Femhrt In a message dated 2/4/03 8:59:26 AM Mountain Standard Time, mgrant@... writes: > , No, rather than it's being an abbreviation, it is femhrt, per Drake & > Drake, Margaret > I second that, plus I saw a sample bottle at one of my offices and it said femhrt (not capped). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 Excellent idea if that symbol is available. Unfortunately, my employer's software doesn't have that capability. We don't have bold, italics, superscript or subscript available, as I've probably mentioned before, let alone any symbols. Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Re: Femhrt In a message dated 2/4/03 8:59:26 AM Mountain Standard Time, mgrant@... writes: > , No, rather than it's being an abbreviation, it is femhrt, per Drake & > Drake, Margaret > I second that, plus I saw a sample bottle at one of my offices and it said femhrt (not capped). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 This is another case of something changing after the fact, as in AcipHex. When it first came out it was AcipHex, but later it was changed to Aciphex. I have sticky notes from the drug company with AcipHex. Some of my doctors spell new drugs for me and way back when they spelled it FemHRT and that is the way it was introduced and samples given out. Now it is femhrt. Hard to keep track! -- Re: Femhrt In this particular case, whoever signs the paycheck would not apply since it s a documented brand name, in which case any other spelling is wrong UNLESS by some chance another company has a different registered trademark name. Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Re: Femhrt A brand name must be spelled exactly as written. In other words, the registered trade name in this case is femhrt, not Femhrt, FemHrt, or any combination thereof. I realize the logic of wanting to cap the first letter since that's how most brand names are, but this is the exception Hope that unconfuses you Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 This is another case of something changing after the fact, as in AcipHex. When it first came out it was AcipHex, but later it was changed to Aciphex. I have sticky notes from the drug company with AcipHex. Some of my doctors spell new drugs for me and way back when they spelled it FemHRT and that is the way it was introduced and samples given out. Now it is femhrt. Hard to keep track! -- Re: Femhrt In this particular case, whoever signs the paycheck would not apply since it s a documented brand name, in which case any other spelling is wrong UNLESS by some chance another company has a different registered trademark name. Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Re: Femhrt A brand name must be spelled exactly as written. In other words, the registered trade name in this case is femhrt, not Femhrt, FemHrt, or any combination thereof. I realize the logic of wanting to cap the first letter since that's how most brand names are, but this is the exception Hope that unconfuses you Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 This is another case of something changing after the fact, as in AcipHex. When it first came out it was AcipHex, but later it was changed to Aciphex. I have sticky notes from the drug company with AcipHex. Some of my doctors spell new drugs for me and way back when they spelled it FemHRT and that is the way it was introduced and samples given out. Now it is femhrt. Hard to keep track! -- Re: Femhrt In this particular case, whoever signs the paycheck would not apply since it s a documented brand name, in which case any other spelling is wrong UNLESS by some chance another company has a different registered trademark name. Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Re: Femhrt A brand name must be spelled exactly as written. In other words, the registered trade name in this case is femhrt, not Femhrt, FemHrt, or any combination thereof. I realize the logic of wanting to cap the first letter since that's how most brand names are, but this is the exception Hope that unconfuses you Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 As I've mentioned before, my employer considers mtdesk.com to be the ultimate reference for cases such as this as far as reliability is concerned. When I looked up femhrt there, and clicked on their link, here's what I found: " Note: Although trademarked as femhrt, Warner-Lambert's 1998 annual report/letter to shareholders refers to this product as FemHRT. Mfg: Duramed Pharmaceuticals, distributed by Pfizer (formerly Parke-, div. of Warner-Lambert). Source: FDA approvals-10/15/99). " Obviously this is where the difference in spellings came from This also, to me anyway, explains why my employer considers this site the " final answer. " Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Re: Femhrt In a message dated 2/4/2003 11:11:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, njburk@... writes: > Since FemHRT is the brand name and not the chemical name, I personally think > it should be capitalized. MPR does still show it as FemHRT but my Neil > > abbreviation book cross-referenced drug list shows it as Femhrt with a > capital. > Quick Look Electronic Drug Reference also shows it with a capital F. Femhrt. It appears with TM after it. This is not to say they are correct, just that this is the way it appears. Peggy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 As I've mentioned before, my employer considers mtdesk.com to be the ultimate reference for cases such as this as far as reliability is concerned. When I looked up femhrt there, and clicked on their link, here's what I found: " Note: Although trademarked as femhrt, Warner-Lambert's 1998 annual report/letter to shareholders refers to this product as FemHRT. Mfg: Duramed Pharmaceuticals, distributed by Pfizer (formerly Parke-, div. of Warner-Lambert). Source: FDA approvals-10/15/99). " Obviously this is where the difference in spellings came from This also, to me anyway, explains why my employer considers this site the " final answer. " Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Re: Femhrt In a message dated 2/4/2003 11:11:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, njburk@... writes: > Since FemHRT is the brand name and not the chemical name, I personally think > it should be capitalized. MPR does still show it as FemHRT but my Neil > > abbreviation book cross-referenced drug list shows it as Femhrt with a > capital. > Quick Look Electronic Drug Reference also shows it with a capital F. Femhrt. It appears with TM after it. This is not to say they are correct, just that this is the way it appears. Peggy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 I had a doctor actually SPELL the drug out for me when it first came out " Capital F, e, m, capital H, capitalR, capital T. " YIKES! Guess I need to change that spelling now, huh??? Same with the AcipHex ... and I thought I was bad at not being able to make up my mind!!! Re: Femhrt In this particular case, whoever signs the paycheck would not apply since it s a documented brand name, in which case any other spelling is wrong UNLESS by some chance another company has a different registered trademark name. Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Re: Femhrt A brand name must be spelled exactly as written. In other words, the registered trade name in this case is femhrt, not Femhrt, FemHrt, or any combination thereof. I realize the logic of wanting to cap the first letter since that's how most brand names are, but this is the exception Hope that unconfuses you Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 I had a doctor actually SPELL the drug out for me when it first came out " Capital F, e, m, capital H, capitalR, capital T. " YIKES! Guess I need to change that spelling now, huh??? Same with the AcipHex ... and I thought I was bad at not being able to make up my mind!!! Re: Femhrt In this particular case, whoever signs the paycheck would not apply since it s a documented brand name, in which case any other spelling is wrong UNLESS by some chance another company has a different registered trademark name. Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Re: Femhrt A brand name must be spelled exactly as written. In other words, the registered trade name in this case is femhrt, not Femhrt, FemHrt, or any combination thereof. I realize the logic of wanting to cap the first letter since that's how most brand names are, but this is the exception Hope that unconfuses you Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 I had a doctor actually SPELL the drug out for me when it first came out " Capital F, e, m, capital H, capitalR, capital T. " YIKES! Guess I need to change that spelling now, huh??? Same with the AcipHex ... and I thought I was bad at not being able to make up my mind!!! Re: Femhrt In this particular case, whoever signs the paycheck would not apply since it s a documented brand name, in which case any other spelling is wrong UNLESS by some chance another company has a different registered trademark name. Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Re: Femhrt A brand name must be spelled exactly as written. In other words, the registered trade name in this case is femhrt, not Femhrt, FemHrt, or any combination thereof. I realize the logic of wanting to cap the first letter since that's how most brand names are, but this is the exception Hope that unconfuses you Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 No, FemHRT is an actual brand name. Monika Re: Femhrt > I assume that is Feminine Hormone Replacement Therapy? Should that be > spelled out as such? > > A > > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE send a blank email to NMTC-unsubscribe > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 No, FemHRT is an actual brand name. Monika Re: Femhrt > I assume that is Feminine Hormone Replacement Therapy? Should that be > spelled out as such? > > A > > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE send a blank email to NMTC-unsubscribe > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 If you want to keep your job it would apply (wrong or not). Monika Re: Femhrt > > > A brand name must be spelled exactly as written. In other words, the > registered trade name in this case is femhrt, not Femhrt, FemHrt, or any > combination thereof. I realize the logic of wanting to cap the first letter > since that's how most brand names are, but this is the exception Hope > that unconfuses you > > Jan > jantranscribes@... > " Typing is my life. " > " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 If you want to keep your job it would apply (wrong or not). Monika Re: Femhrt > > > A brand name must be spelled exactly as written. In other words, the > registered trade name in this case is femhrt, not Femhrt, FemHrt, or any > combination thereof. I realize the logic of wanting to cap the first letter > since that's how most brand names are, but this is the exception Hope > that unconfuses you > > Jan > jantranscribes@... > " Typing is my life. " > " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 If you want to keep your job it would apply (wrong or not). Monika Re: Femhrt > > > A brand name must be spelled exactly as written. In other words, the > registered trade name in this case is femhrt, not Femhrt, FemHrt, or any > combination thereof. I realize the logic of wanting to cap the first letter > since that's how most brand names are, but this is the exception Hope > that unconfuses you > > Jan > jantranscribes@... > " Typing is my life. " > " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 Even if you can document the correct spelling? Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Re: Femhrt > > > > > > A brand name must be spelled exactly as written. In other words, the > > registered trade name in this case is femhrt, not Femhrt, FemHrt, or any > > combination thereof. I realize the logic of wanting to cap the first > letter > > since that's how most brand names are, but this is the exception > Hope > > that unconfuses you > > > > Jan > > jantranscribes@... > > " Typing is my life. " > > " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 Even if you can document the correct spelling? Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Re: Femhrt > > > > > > A brand name must be spelled exactly as written. In other words, the > > registered trade name in this case is femhrt, not Femhrt, FemHrt, or any > > combination thereof. I realize the logic of wanting to cap the first > letter > > since that's how most brand names are, but this is the exception > Hope > > that unconfuses you > > > > Jan > > jantranscribes@... > > " Typing is my life. " > > " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 Even if you can document the correct spelling? Jan jantranscribes@... " Typing is my life. " " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " Re: Femhrt > > > > > > A brand name must be spelled exactly as written. In other words, the > > registered trade name in this case is femhrt, not Femhrt, FemHrt, or any > > combination thereof. I realize the logic of wanting to cap the first > letter > > since that's how most brand names are, but this is the exception > Hope > > that unconfuses you > > > > Jan > > jantranscribes@... > > " Typing is my life. " > > " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 You better believe it. If my employer tells me to type it a certain way I'm going to do it without arguing with her, especially in a case like this. Monika Re: Femhrt > > > > > > > > > A brand name must be spelled exactly as written. In other words, the > > > registered trade name in this case is femhrt, not Femhrt, FemHrt, or > any > > > combination thereof. I realize the logic of wanting to cap the first > > letter > > > since that's how most brand names are, but this is the exception > > Hope > > > that unconfuses you > > > > > > Jan > > > jantranscribes@... > > > " Typing is my life. " > > > " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 You better believe it. If my employer tells me to type it a certain way I'm going to do it without arguing with her, especially in a case like this. Monika Re: Femhrt > > > > > > > > > A brand name must be spelled exactly as written. In other words, the > > > registered trade name in this case is femhrt, not Femhrt, FemHrt, or > any > > > combination thereof. I realize the logic of wanting to cap the first > > letter > > > since that's how most brand names are, but this is the exception > > Hope > > > that unconfuses you > > > > > > Jan > > > jantranscribes@... > > > " Typing is my life. " > > > " Whoever signs the paycheck makes the rules. " > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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