Re: those pesky trademarks

[David Myers <dmgraph@bway.net>]

>At 12:04 AM 2/12/98 -0500, Jeff Schwartz wrote:
>
>>Oh yeah, I noticed in the new Guitar World a letter from
>>Eventide asserting their trademark on the word
>>"harmonizer." Where do I go to register the words
>>"distortion," "reverb," "delay," "sampler," etc.?
>
>To register a trademark, you go to the Patent and Trademark Office of your
>respective country, fill out forms, pay fees, etc. Some additional 
>processes
>to get it international. If the word has already been used in product 
>names,
>you won't get it. So your choices here probably wouldn't fly. Eventide, on
>the other hand, probably does have a trademark on "harmonizer" since they
>have been making products with that name for a long time, certainly before
>anyone else was.
>
>kim

Eventide has had this trademark for a long time.  I can remember such
letters appearing in the magazines at least 10 or 15 years ago.  Give 'em a
break--they really were harmonizing before anyone else, no?

David Myers