Leica User Forum - View Single Post - Who owns the 'Leica' name? Customers or Shareholders?

marknorton · 07/13/07, 10:04 AM

There are three companies which derive from the original Ernst Leitz Wetzlar GmbH - Leica Camera AG, Leica Microsystems GmbH, Leica Geosystems AG.

Leica Microsystems owns the Leica trademark and licences it to Leica Camera. Leica Camera owns such trade-marks at "Elmarit", "Summilux" and "Summicron".

My own experience of this type of cyber-squatting is that it's not worth the effort to try to straighten things out unless it's really damaging.

A variant of my company's web-site (.com instead of .co.uk) used to bring up a pornography site which wasn't helpful to my business. I've since managed to buy the .com URL from some outfit in South Korea...

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marknorton Erfahrener Benutzer Join Date: 11/12/02 Posts: 5,263	Re: Who owns the 'Leica' name? Customers or Shareholders? There are three companies which derive from the original Ernst Leitz Wetzlar GmbH - Leica Camera AG, Leica Microsystems GmbH, Leica Geosystems AG. Leica Microsystems owns the Leica trademark and licences it to Leica Camera. Leica Camera owns such trade-marks at "Elmarit", "Summilux" and "Summicron". My own experience of this type of cyber-squatting is that it's not worth the effort to try to straighten things out unless it's really damaging. A variant of my company's web-site (.com instead of .co.uk) used to bring up a pornography site which wasn't helpful to my business. I've since managed to buy the .com URL from some outfit in South Korea... __________________ Mark