JANUARY IN IP HISTO®Y
British Trademark No. 1 issues on January 1, 1876 for ale.
The Department of Registration of Trademarks opened in London on January 1, 1876. The first registered trademark was the red triangle of the company, "Bass & Co.," in use in connection with "ale" for at least 20 years before December 31, 1875.
January 3, 1924 -British Egyptologist Howard Carter discovers the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of Kings near Luxor.
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January 4, 1972 - WILLY WONKA's makes its mark on candy.
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January 5,1971 - the BABY PATTING MACHINE is patented
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January 5, 1965 - Burger King registers HOME OF THE WHOPPER for "drive-in restaurant services.'
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January 7, 1714 - Henry Mill issued a patent for a "Machine for Transcribing Letters."
In the patent granted to Mill by Queen Anne, it was noted that Mill's machine made counterfeiting more difficult, and made reading and writing easier because any person could set down on paper letters that were "so neat and exact as not to be distinguished from print."
January 8, 1982- The American Telephone and Telegraph Co. was broken up as the result of an antitrust suit. AT&T gave up 22 local Bell System companies , opening the U.S. telecommunications system to (albeit brief and limited) competition.
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January 9, 1906 - CAMPBELL'S (and design) registered for condensed soups
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January 9, 1968 - XEROX replicates a trademark for facsimile transmitting and receiving apparatus.
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January 12, 1869 - Howard Tilden patents his cross-bow TOY COPTER
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01/12/1912- The FLYING BOAT invented by Glenn Curtiss takes first flight at Hammondsport, New York.
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January 13, 1930 - The first MICKEY MOUSE comic strip by Walt Disney debuts.
Mickey wants to "Learn to Fly like Lindy", namely Charles Lindbergh, who completed the first transatlantic flight on May 20-21, 1927 (33h29 in the air).
January 14, 1963 - Charlie Watts joins the Rollings Stones. 3 years later, DAVID Jones changes his name to DAVID BOWIE.
BOWIE changed his name so people wouldn’t confuse him with The Monkees’ Davey Jones. He selected the name because he liked that “big American bear-killin’ knife.”
Battleship. U.S.Pat No. 1,988,301 landed on January 15, 1935
The patented game board was different from that many of us grew up playing. While the claims include a perforated game board and pins insertable in the perforations, it suggested a number of different games: “The game herein illustrated as in progress might be called Battleships' which requires two players facing each other. “One player, making use preferably of some erasable marking means, such as chalk, places an enclosure or line around a number of arbitrarily chosen series of perforations in groups of 4 (representing a battleship), in groups of 3 (a cruiser). Play will go back and forth with each player calling out shots at the others' unseen targets and continues when one of the series of perforations within an enclosure has been filled with pins, that ‘ship’ is ‘sunk’.”
January 15, 1963 - WELLS FARGO in use since 1852 registered for banking services.
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January 16, 2007 - the color ORANGE applied to the handle of scissors becomes a registered trademark of FISKARS.
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January 18, 1902 - Nikola Tesla files files pat no. 1,119,732 for a Magnifying Transmitter for wireless transmission of electrical energy.
In his autobigraphy, Tesla wrote: “I feel certain that of all my inventions, the Magnifying Transmitter will prove most important and valuable to future generations.”
Jan. 20, 1914 * Famous trademark KOHLER registered in conection with plumbing fixtures.
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January 21, 1964-Ludwig Drum Co. beats on a new patent for a drum pedal
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January 22, 1974 - Nike swooshes in for a design trademark.
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January 23, 1900 - CREAM OF WHEAT registers in connection with cereal.
CREAM OF WHEAT is believed to be the longest registered US mark that remains continuously in use.
John Landis, and. MICHAEL JACKSON'S THRILLER -January 23, 1984 (U.S. release)
January 23, 1984 (U.S. release) January 27, 1984 Copyright Registered for one of the most groundbreaking and unforgettable music video performances in HIS Sto®y!
January 25, 1980 - the color PINK becomes a trademark registered by Owens-Corning for fiberglass insulation .
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January 26, 1965* Noah and Joseph McVicker mold patent #3,167,440 for a soft, pliable plastic modeling composition better known as Play-Doh®
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January 27, 1880 * Thomas Edison patents the incandescent lamp lighting the way to universal domestic use of electric light.
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