The trademark claims are 3 decades after the first public usage of the
terms in MAG's mic paper in the London AES convention and MAG's and Peter
Fellget's articles in Studio Sound, so I think prior use is just a bit on
the well established side....
Dave
On 16 September 2018 at 09:56, Augustine Leudar <augustineleu...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Trademarks can be unenforceable in the Uk if you can show prior usage.
> Don’t know about Australia. It’s annoying though.
>
> On Sunday, 16 September 2018, David Pickett <d...@fugato.com> wrote:
>
> > But arent Rode in Australia, anyway?
> >
> > DAavid
> >
> > At 02:32 16-09-18, Garry Margolis wrote:
> > >
> > >I’m not a lawyer, but my understanding is that under USA law, anyone
> > >can claim a trademark, but this particular claim wouldn’t be
> > >defensible because of its prior general usage.
> > >
> > >Garry
> > > --
> > >Garry Margolis
> > >gar...@panix.com
> > >
> > >On Sep 15, 2018, at 10:42 AM, Paul Hodges <pwh-surro...@cassland.org>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> --On 15 September 2018 18:25 +0100 Phi Shu <phi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Surely not something that can be granted considering the terms have
> > >>> been widely used for decades?
> > >>
> > >> Trademark rules are far from obvious. Microsoft trademarked the word
> > >> "bookshelf" at one point.
> > >>
> > >> But I can't see what they think they gain by doing it anyway...
> > >>
> > >> Paul
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Paul Hodges
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