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When companies get dissolved, go bankrupt, or just to make a quick buck they sell or license IP, trademarks, etc. to extract value out of whatever was left. Thi
by close04 6y ago
When companies get dissolved, go bankrupt, or just to make a quick buck they sell or license IP, trademarks, etc. to extract value out of whatever was left. This is how you get the Polaroid and Kodak brands on all kinds of cheap electronics, or company revivals like this. Sometimes only the brand name and logo survive, with no actual IP, tech, knowledge, or personnel being passed on.
- SmallPeePeeMan 6y agoAlso Kodak and General Electric lightbulbs are now just licensed brand names nothing to do with original.
- ghaff 6y agoOne particularly persistent piece of PR scattershot emails I get is for random low-end electronic gadgets with an RCA brand. Though it's not just tech. The Pan American Airways brand seems to periodically get slapped onto some regional airline.
- Qworg 6y agoEven weirder, sometimes those brand names/logos are _shared between companies_ - for example, Ryobi is made by various different entities who all partially own it and agree on packaging/branding.