Timeline:

1868 - Friedr Bayer et comp. - manufacturing of chemicals

1881 - Friedr Bayer et comp CHANGED to Farbenfabriken Vorm Friedr (FFB)

1888 - engaged in pharmaceuticals

1893 - Bayer products was already known to the Philippines Revista Farmaceutica

1895 - subsidiary was established in US named Farbenfabriken of Elberfeld to sell

products in US and Canada

1899 - BAYER Aspirin discovered, world-renowned

1904 - registered Bayer Cross encircled by the FFB

same year, registered it in Denmark, England, Argentina, Norway;

1908 - U.S. reg.

1911 - SPAIN reg.

1913 - PERU reg.

IMPORTANT:

also established Bayer Co, another subsidiary in the US allowed and authorized to
acquire trademarks, goodwill, and assets of Farbenfabriken of Elberfeld. This gave it
exclusive right to market and sell Bayer products, acquiring the rights of
Farbenfabriken Subsidiary

1917 - US declared war against Germany. The Alien Property Custodian classified
Bayer Co as a German corporation and therefore an enemy. Seized all its assets
and rights, and sold the same to Sterling Drug Inc. Therefore, Bayer became a
subsidiary of Sterling Drug Inc. Later on, they established Winthrop to be the one to
handle pharmaceutical sales.

1922 - international conflict with the exclusive use of the Bayer cross mark.

1925 - merged with other German companies, changed FFB to IG Farbenindustrie -

they deleted the name of the FFB and then maintained the bayer cross encircled by
green and blue.

1926 - resolved the conflict, IG Farbenindustrie will no longer contest Winthrop’s

rights over the Bayer Cross and its concomitant use in the US and the PH

1929 - Re-registered BAYER CROSS in CIRCLE

1935 - Sterling Products International - Delaware corporation, authorized to transact
in the Philippines and registered its trademark;

1941 - anti trust suit stating that the agreement of IG Farbenindustrie and Winthrop
violate the anti-trust laws alleging that the exclusion of FFB from the US markets
was violative of the law.

1942 - trademark rights were assigned to SPI, inc. for sale in the PH, recorded in the
Philippine Patent Office on 1947.

During the second world war, the allied forces seized IG Farbenindustrie and then it
was later on transferred to FBA, one of the defendants of this case organized in
1951.

1958 - allied manufacturing and trading started selling FBA products especially
folidol, an insecticide bearing the Bayer Cross.