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

[David Lennick]

Oliver B is very much with us and still collecting Nipper paintings. One in 
particular he's looking for is in Canada. (According to one source, Nipper 
appeared on Canadian pressings before showing up on US labels.)

dl

On 1/25/2013 5:44 PM, Rodger Holtin wrote:
> If the existing registrations are dead, could someone apply for new usage and gain registration?
> (Most of us know less about trademark registrations than copyright - which ain't much to begin with.)
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> If the UK thinks it's worth 78 million (bucks or Lumps/Pounds), what is it worth in the USA?  If Nipper really is out to pasture for the last roundup, apparently not much.  Interesting turn of fortune.  Seems like the Brits didn't think much of Nipper when he was new until the Yanks got interested, right?  [Is Oliver B. still with us?]
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> Rodger
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> --- On Fri, 1/25/13, Michael Shoshani<michael.shoshani at gmail.com>  wrote:
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> From: Michael Shoshani<michael.shoshani at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Is Nipper Trademark worth $78 million
> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Friday, January 25, 2013, 4:32 PM
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> MS
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