Leica registers M9 trademark, but not R10

[adan]

Leica has registered the trademark "M9" with the US Patent Officet as of May (original application last Sept.)

M9: Image recording instruments and apparatus, in particular photographic rangefinder cameras for analogue or digital still image recording
Filing Date September 3, 2007
Published for Opposition February 26, 2008
Registration Date May 13, 2008
Owner Leica Camera AG Oskar-Barnack-Strasse 11 35606 Solms FED REP GERMANY

>>>Leica has NOT registered "R10" - but then it appears they have never registered the R camera names previously.

>>>Nor did they register any M camera names until the M8. Of note; the M8 trademark was registered in May 2006 - 4 months before photokina 06.


Other Leica Camera trademarks recently applied for (2008): Noctivid (low-light or light-amplification scopes, sights, etc.), Aquadura (waterproof coating for optical instruments)

Final note: multiple products can register the same trademark so long as they are not in competing fields: E.g. BMW has also registered "M9" for cars.

Source: Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)

Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)

[marknorton]

Well spotted, Andy!

[Mauribix]

yep!
Thanks Andy.

[Riley]

thanks to the irrepressible Mr Piper....
kinda interesting move when you think about it

a bit OT here perhaps, but Olympus have registered the name E-30 in Japan
E-30 is the rumoured in between camera beyond E-520 and below E-3
and follows the older OM notation used ummm, in the last century...

[jimmy pro]

Originally Posted by adan

Final note: multiple products can register the same trademark so long as they are not in competing fields: E.g. BMW has also registered "M9" for cars.

Interesting in that Canon and Nikon both used D60 for DSLR's, although the Canon was discontinued way before the Nikon was borned.

[sdai]

Note the filing date was on September 3, 2007 when Lee was still in the office, I suspect that Leica has already shelved the M9 since Lee has been ousted in Feb. 2008.

[Pitxu]

I was under the impression that all "M" numbers were registered long ago.
Originally Olympus wanted to name their OM series M, but were prevented from doing so by Leica.

[marknorton]

Pretty vile user interface...

[M. Valdemar]

Leitz politely requested that Olympus stop using the "M1" name and Olympus complied.

That was in a different era when people has scruples.

[steich]

Hi,
in Germany, Leica have registered both "R10" and "R11" at the "Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt".
See: https://dpinfo.dpma.de/protect/mar.html
For "Aktenzeichen" (Registration number) enter 302008025927.2 (this is for the R10, for R11 it´s 302008025928.0)

Regards
Stefan