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...ubiquitous. It has appeared hanging around the necks of G.I.s in Viet Nam; on a fast-selling line of women's dresses; fashioned into belt buckles, cuff links, rings and tie clasps. Lately, two firms have tried separately to register the symbol as a commercial trademark (the U.S. Patent Office has ruled that out). An Alexandria, Va., firm is now marketing a clip-on typewriter key bearing the symbol. One prospective customer is Sally Sanders, a reporter for the Redding, Conn., Pilot. She plans to type it at the end of her copy instead of the traditional...
Schuyler said he thought the symbol "could not properly function as a trademark subject to registration by the patent office...
...United States Patent Office has tentatively decided to register the peace symbol as a commercial trademark for either a shoe company or for the clothing firm which has already trademarked the word...
...this were the accepted symbol of the Quakers or any organized religious sect which is absolutely pacifistic, we would not register it," C. M. Wendt, director of the Patent Office's trademark examining office, said...
...almost think that there was nothing going on there. But that's ridiculous. Who could forget, if he ever learned of it, the results of the First Baby Contest two years ago? Patent Trader sponsors a contest for the first baby born in the new year at our hospital. Local merchants present the mother everything from trading stamps to a pet monkey. So imagine everyone's surprise when an unmarried 15-year-old girl won that race early one January 1. She apparently turned down all the publicity-including the traditional front page picture-and the first married mother walked...