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| | | I was just wondering if there had been any discussion about the use of trademark names. by this I mean - say I wanted to build a Conrail Locomotive, or a Pennsylvania RR passanger car, or a box car with a product name on it. Would this be allowed? (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Train building contest —Frank Filz
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| | | | | (...) For non-commercial uses, there doesn't seem to be a real problem. I think the railroad companies are pretty amenable (after all, it's really an honor to be modeled). I have no idea what the commercial companies do for the decals or lettered (...) (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Train building contest —James Powell
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| | | | | | (for example, take the Shay drive train, if (...) Not in this case. The patent expired in 1922, so it is not a problem to blatently rip off the ideas. I believe even the Doble Steam car patents are now public domain, at least in the UK...and they (...) (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Train building contest —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | (...) My example was hypothetical. I figured it was a pretty good bet the patents had expired. It was just an example of something where I strongly suspect that there were patents which would have been applicable to models. (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Train building contest —James Powell
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| | | | | | (...) The reason why I knew about that one is that Willimette built rip offs of Shay's (called the West Coast Shay) starting in 22. Most anything to do with steam has passed the 50 year mark on the patents, and a lot of it has passed the 70 year (...) (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Train building contest —James Powell
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| | | | | (...) Given that both of the preceding are no longer in existance, yes you can use them...I don't _think_ that there has ever been a restriction on the use of a image (such as a loco) because it belonged to someone else, therefore I cannot see a (...) (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Train building contest —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | Mark Staffa wrote in message ... (...) What does this have to do with the subject line? Did this sprout off a thread about a train building contest that I've missed? I'm interested! I have a couple things here that would go in a contest that (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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