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I wonder if the Swatch Group will challenge them over the Speedmaster name. Cartier is very aggressive when anyone uses the name Cartier or term “tank” in pretty much any context – they successfully sued a Mr. Cartier who named his law office the Cartier Law Firm. Omega, which is part of the Swatch Group now, has had the Speedmaster name for its chronographs since the late 1950’s….
Copyright Protection Not Available for Names, Titles, or Short Phrases:
http://copyright.gov/circs/circ34.pdf
Well, I see two possibilities here:
1. Cartier the jewellery company may not have sued the Cartier Law Firm under copyright law, but instead under other registered name and trademark law. In Colorado, if naming of a company might cause consumer confusion, there is grounds for infringement. A similar case was Roland (the Japanese musical instruments company) suing the Colorado Springs based high-end audio company Rowland Research (owned by Jeff Rowland). Roland won. Rowland Research had to change their name to Jeff Rowland Design Group.
2. Speedmaster (run together like that) is a made-up word, not one or more actual words. I would not expect that I could make my own car and call it a Prius. The legislation you linked seems to be specific to actual words, and not made-up ones.
The trademark ‘Speedmaster’ is registered by 45 users, it’s likely the trade mark applies to different devices, so a lens using the trademark would not be an infringement on a watch using the same.
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchss&state=4807:g7utxp.1.1
Search for Speedmaster.
Soeedmasters have long tradition:
https://www.google.de/search?q=heidelberg+speedmaster&biw=1920&bih=1105&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=QUZeVbHzOYHzUsWigLgC&sqi=2&ved=0CCAQsAQ&dpr=1
mitakon 50mm and 85mm bokeh is so ugly
Sadly I think this is the correct picture for the Sony FE version of the lens:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mitakon-Zhongyi-Speedmaster-85mm-f-1-2-Prime-Lens-for-Sony-NEX-E-A7-A7S-A7R-/151686252349?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item235134873d