[DML] DMC Logo

["John Hicks" <johnzd81@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, but this thread is getting a little boring.

I do feel I have a bit of expertise in this area having just 
patented an invention, and exploring the correct way to promote and 
register my trademark so it is defendable.  Patenting and 
trademarking is arduous if you decide to go it alone, just wading 
through the legalese stops most people dead in their tracks.

You do not copyright a logo. Period.  Copyright protects 
intellectual property such as documents.  To copyright a document, 
you merely add "Copyright yyyy by (your name, organization etc...) 
and your material is protected for 99 years.  Copyrights are non-
renewable.  Laws against plagerism protect copyrighted materials 
from being "re-written" and re-copyrighted.

Logos require a "Registered" Trademark issued by the US Patent and 
Trademark Office (www.uspto.com).  You may also get an international 
trademark issued (i.e. Nike, MBA, DMC etc....)  If you go to the 
USPTO site, and do a Trademark search for DMC, you will find the 
trademark is dead.  (here's a direct link) 

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?
state=1mn974.4.1&f=toc&a_search=&p_s_ALL=DMC

In order to obtain a registered trademark for your logo, the logo 
must be actively used in commerce, you then provide proofs that you 
are using a unique logo in commerce, via photos or samples of the 
logo on the product, or the product packaging.

If you follow the above link, and click on DeLorean Motor Company, 
you will see the Logo is considered dead, no one owns the logo at 
this time, or has any legal claim to it under US law.  At this time, 
there do not appear to be any new applications for the logo pending, 
so DMCH, even though they are using the logo actively in commerce, 
does not have a legal claim that would hold up in court.  

John VIN 1674








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