[DML] Re: DMC Logo

["aaron_t_graham" <aaron_t_graham@xxxxxxxxx>]

I found it: (searched for delorean)

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=elfpo9.2.4

Registration Number  	2491848
Registration Date 	September 25, 2001
Owner 	(REGISTRANT) DeLorean Motor Company CORPORATION TEXAS 10804
Roark Road Houston TEXAS 77099

Aaron
#1506

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "John Hicks" <johnzd81@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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