P3D Re: Boris and "Truecolor"

[Brian Reynolds <reynolds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marvin Jones wrote:
> Since we're digressing into the realm of legalities and semantics, I
> remember that the correspondent (Boris, wasn't it?) using the name
> "Truecolor" was always careful to include a legal "TM" after the term, and
> I was curious as to whether he had ever actually run an official trademark
> registration request on it? This afternoon I happened to mention the
> earlier discussion of the name  to a friend who is an executive at
> Paramount Pictures, and he commented, as I had earlier, that "Trucolor" was
> a motion picture color system used for years by Republic Pictures through
> their association with CFI Laboratory in Hollywood, and since both entities
> are still alive and well (alive anyway) he found it, and I quote, "utterly
> inconceivable" that a trademark with so similar a name would be issued.
> (Just curious, not trying to stir up trouble...)

This came up recently in one of the newsgroups I read (which I
unfortunately can't remember).  Trademarks and servicemarks (both
notmally shown as superscripts of their respective abbreviations) do
not require registration.  Use of "registered trademark", or the
r-in-circle symbol (the ASCII (R) is not valid), requires proper
registration (with the US Patent & Trademark Office).  This
information, and more, is available in a FAQ on the US PTO web site
available at <URL:http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/tac/tmfaq.htm>.

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