[78-L] Cameo Record Corporation

[Steven C. Barr]

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From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> Actually that is what my point was.  It looked like the new Columbia was
> abandoning those other names which would mean that the trademarks were
> then free for the taking.  Not a good move.  Holding onto a trademark
> would not really cost them, and it would be safer to keep something you
> had once used for product rather than risk some schlock company using it
> and perhaps pring down your reputation in the eyes of the public.
>
> Geoffrey Wheeler wrote:
>> Sorry for the confusion about non-Cameo labels. The non-Cameos were
>> disestablished, as indicated. Hit of the Week, of course, had nothing
>> to do with ARC or CBS in 1939. I doubt the Philadelphia incarnation of
>> the “Cameo” name had anything to do with disestablished Cameo. For that
>> matter, since the trade-name and trade marks for Columbia Phonograph
>> are “dead,” somebody could conceivably apply to the Trade Mark office
>> and file for trade-name and trade- mark under that name. If one were of
>> a mind to, one could probably incorporate in New York State (or any
>> other state) under the name “Columbia Phonograph Corp.”
>>
It looks as though CBS may have considered using a revived Cameo brand...
very possibly for something akin to their old Harmony label of 1925-32?

Steven C. Barr