According to Ricoh, Hoya owns the Pentax Trademark, but when Ricoh bought the
Pentax camera business from Hoya, they received an unrestricted license to use
the Pentax name in the camera business.
IOW, there ain't no expiration date on Ricoh offering Pentax *CAMERAS*.
On 6/11/2019 14:43:47,
Alex:
Every rumor has a rumor part in it. :-)
And some rumors are just rumors.
P.J.
The original rumor was not from DPReview. Rather, it was from
Pentaxrumors.com , with a reference to a post in Pentax Forums.
While looking posts referenced by the "rumor", I've found these
interesting
it is of course DPReview, they have a long history of Canikon bias, no
one except the big two made digital cameras that they had to care about,
for about 10 years. It would simplify their jobs, possibly into non
existence, though I doubt they realize that, if there were only one or
two camera
The "rumor" didn't made sense from the beginning: *we* don't know the
details about the Ricoh-Hoya deal, but Ricoh definitely does.
Yet we're supposed to believe that Ricoh - who is preparing for the
November anniversary - is either a. unaware they would lose the right
to Pentax brand or b.
I suspect some PDMLers may have seen this on DPreview, Pentax Rumors, or
elsewhere, but I thought some might be curious to hear this.
There was a short "rumor" posted on Pentax Rumors in May, that
apparently, Ricoh's rights to use the Pentax brand name will end in 2020:
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