Yes, it is trademarked. I looked at the federal trademark site awhile back and boy do they have a lot of garbarge, much of it just "remotely" regarding what they have locked up. One of the reasons I had to quit using Old Volks Home as a company name, but I was allowed to use it as a product line within Sherwood Automotive back in 1987 onwards. Bunch of BS I agree. -- Jim Thompson 84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt" 73 K Ghia Coupe "Denise" 72 411 Station Wagon "Pug" oldvolkshome@gmail.com http://www.oldvolkshome.com ********************************** On 10/15/05, Jim Felder <felder@knology.net> wrote: > > How many companies, in the US and Europe, use the word Volks. Can > German-speaking people legitimately use the word now, or will it be > retired from the language? > > Is this a move by VW or VoA? > > If it's from VW, then the Germans can shut up about America be a > litigious society. If it's from VoA, it's just more of the same crap we > Amercians have to put up with because we have judges that are too > stupid to understand our own copyright laws. > > Jim |
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