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

[Michael Shoshani]

On 01/25/2013 04:05 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> Is ANYTHING public domain in the USA? Very doubtful. Also, the stores are
> thriving in Canada since they were taken over by another company a couple of
> years ago (and can still supply Naxos titles to US customers).


Here, for the record (ha!) is the sole live United States trademark 
registration for everyone's favorite gramopup:

http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=71195205&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch

In the row that says "Mark Information", click the "Expand all" button. 
The nitty-gritty is under "Goods and Services":

RADIO APPARATUS, PARTS, AND APPURTENANCES--NAMELY, RADIO RECEIVING SETS, 
[SOUND AMPLIFYING HORNS HAVING TELEPHONE RECEIVERS,] LOUD SPEAKERS, 
[LOOPS,] [ MICROPHONES, ] RADIO RECEIVING SETS MOUNTED OR CONTAINED IN 
CABINETS WITH TALKING MACHINES, RADIO RECEIVING SETS ADAPTED FOR 
COMBINATION WITH TALKING MACHINES, RADIO RECEIVING SETS WHEREIN PARTS OF 
TALKING MACHINES ARE USED AS PARTS OF RADIO SETS, WHEREIN TALKING 
MACHINES ARE USED AS LOUD SPEAKERS, [AND WHEREIN THE SOUND AMPLIFYING 
HORNS OF TALKING MACHINES ARE PROVIDED WITH TELEPHONE RECEIVERS AND [ 
MICROPHONES ]; AND FOR ELECTRICALLY-OPERATED TALKING MACHINES] AND 
PARTS, SUPPLIES, [ACCESSORIES,] AND APPORTENANCES THEREFOR--NAMELY, 
ELECTRIC MOTORS, COILS, TRANSFORMERS, [ RHEOSTATS, ] ELECTRIC SWITCHES 
AND ELECTRIC STOP MECHANISMS

(That was a copy and paste; all misspellings are from the Federable 
Gummint.)

As I look at this, is strikes me that this is actually a patent not for 
a modern electrical radio-phonograph, but for basically a Victrola or 
Electrola that was sold with a radio (not always RCA) whose sound was 
transmitted through the internal horn.

Here are the four dead ones, all of whose Status fields say "This 
registration was not renewed and therefore has expired.":

http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=71599017&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch 
  TELEVISION SETS; TELEVISION AND RADIO RECEIVER SET COMBINATIONS; AND 
TELEVISION-RADIO RECEIVER-RECORD PLAYER COMBINATIONS

http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=71586362&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch 
  INSTALLATION OF, AND PERIODICAL INSPECTION AND REPAIR OF TELEVISION 
RECEIVERS

http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=71242360&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch 
  SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING MACHINERY AND APPURTENANCES THERETO 
AND PARTS THEREOF. TALKING MACHINES AND SUPPLIES THEREFOR, 
TALKING-MACHINE CABINETS, TALKING-MACHINE AMPLIFIERS, SOUND BOXES FOR 
TALKING MACHINES, AND SOUND RECORDS FOR TALKING MACHINES

http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=71066696&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch 
  SOUND RECORDING OR REPRODUCING MACHINES AND PARTS THEREOF, 
TALKING-MACHINE NEEDLES, TALKING-MACHINE HORNS AND AMPLIFIERS, AND 
TALKING-MACHINE RECORDS

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