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Date Posted: 13/02/02 19:55:08 GMT+10
Author: SofaMan
Subject: Problems...
In reply to: Goktimus Prime 's message, "*touches wood*" on 11/02/02 17:32:13 GMT+10


>With such laws in place, any registered/licensed name
>could expire say after a year or so if the company has
>not produced a product or service using that name. In
>other words, use it or lose it.


Which would mean, basically, that unless Hasbro produced a toy with name of, say, 'Ravage' every 12 months, they would lose the right to continue to use that name. This would lead to the opposite problem we have now, which would be unimaginative repetition simply to retain trademarked names.

How long should the right to use a name that you have you have used in the past be held over for? Clearly with Ravage, they had not use the name for well over 10 years, so someone else could quite reasonably claim it. It would have been almost as long for the name Jetfire.

This does not of course either explain or excuse Hasbro's current practice of giving it's new toys (by and large) truly excrable and unimaginative names.

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