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I thought so as well! 'MLRS is a registered trademark of Lockheed Martin Corporation.' https://trademarks.justia.com/759/79/mlrs-75979459.html https://tradema
by mgdlbp 5y ago
I thought so as well!
'MLRS is a registered trademark of Lockheed Martin Corporation.'
https://trademarks.justia.com/759/79/mlrs-75979459.html https://trademarks.justia.com/759/79/mlrs-75979459.html
But for some reason as trademark class 28, toys and sporting goods, with the statement 'toys, namely scale models of military vehicles'.
After some searching: apparently, they mean this:
https://www.brickmania.com/mlrs-multiple-launch-rocket-system/ https://www.brickmania.com/mlrs-multiple-launch-rocket-syste...
Trademarks only apply to their registered class—did they seriously trademark the term just to limit who could sell toys named with it?
- _djo_ 5y agoHuh, well I stand corrected. That is quite a bizarre trademark and I didn't expect it.
- mgdlbp 5y agoAh, they do also have trademarks for the military use and for the full phrase, just realized I stopped searching when I found the first one. https://trademarks.justia.com/search?q=mlrs https://trademarks.justia.com/search?q=mlrs https://trademarks.justia.com/search?q=multiple+launch+rocket+system https://trademarks.justia.com/search?q=multiple+launch+rocke...
- _djo_ 5y agoThanks for this, again I stand corrected. I'm amazed that they were granted those trademarks. As I said, MLRS has become a very generic term and from the start it was a US Army name, not invented by Lockheed-Martin.