[78-L] Is Nipper Trademark worth $78 million

[Michael Shoshani]

On 01/25/2013 03:55 PM, Rodger Holtin wrote:
> Wik The Pedia says Nipper is Public Domain in the USA.
> Really?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Master's_Voice
> Is anybody in the US using it for anything?
>

That bit was actually added by me. It's not completely Public Domain; 
there's one live registration and about six dead. The live registration, 
owned by Technicolor sA (successor to Thomson), is pretty much limited 
to combination radio-phonograph sets as I recall.

SonyBMG is still using it (licensed from General Electric, I think) for 
CDs though. But all the trademark registrations in the USPTO database 
for sound recordings have expired without renewal and are dead.

MS