>I hope this is list relevant.....if not, please ignore me.... On the assumption that Patents & Trademarks fit into the ConLaw area, and being applied to firearms fits firearms-conlaw, I'll reply here.
>I'm interested to see if anyone has heard anything about Colt's >Manufacturing Company's latest round of enforcement efforts re patents and >trademarks. I have no argument with their patent arguments nor do I have >much argument over TMs like "Frontier" or "Peacemaker", although one could >argue Colt's hasn't done much to protect them of late. However, they are >also making noise about what I consider to be a public domain "mark", >namely, ".45 Colt". If they attempt to claim ownership there they will >cause a giant earthquake in the industry. I haven't heard about any effort by Colt, but Colt's name and the name of a number of other firearms manufacturers have been used as part of the names of a number of "calibers". For example, with introduction dates when I can find them in Cartridges of the World 8/e (this is only a small sample of such "named calibers") many or most of these are in current production. 17 Remington 1971 222 Remington 1950 222 Remington Magnum 223 Remington 1957 essentially adopted as the military 5.56mm 22-250 Remington 1965 224 Weatherby Magnum 225 Winchester 1964 240 Weatherby Magnum 25-20 WCF (Winchester Center Fire) 1893-5 250 Savage 7mm Mauser 1892 32-20 Winchester 1882 32 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol) 1899-1903 32 S&W (Smith & Wesson) 1878 32 S&W (Smith & Wesson) Long 1903 32 H&R (Harrington & Richardson) Magnum 1984 32 Long Colt 1875 32 Short Colt 1875 38 Smith & Wesson Special 1902 also known as the 38 Colt Special and more generally called "38 Special" 38 Colt Automatic 1900 44 Colt 1871 45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol) 1905 also know as the 45 Automatic 45 Colt 1873 I have seen many of these calibers of ammo made by other manufacturers, and used in firearms made by many manufacturers. E.g. innumerable manufacturers other than Colt have made handguns in 45ACP caliber. Similarly for rifles in the 223 Remington caliber. I haven't heard of any manufacturers protesting the use of their name in the caliber names. Is Colt upset about their name in the ammunition/caliber, or in the Colt 45 malt liquor? :-) --henry schaffer _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
