Don't forget to renew your trademark..

Voodu Child · 09-01-2009 08:26PM #1

..or this will happen:
www.vhtamp.com

VHT (a US maker of high-quality valve amps) had apparently forgotten to renew their trademark (name/logo), so a Chinese company (AXL) took it instead :pac:

The amps on that page have NOTHING to do with the US VHT amps, they are not licenced copies or anything like that.. just cheap Chinese amps with the VHT logo slapped on. Talk about opportunism

VHT are going to rename themselves as 'Fryette Amplification'....doesnt quite have the same ring to it...

Dord · 09-01-2009 08:44PM

Don't forget to get your story right! :rolleyes:

Steven Fryette, the man behind VHT came up with some new ideas for amps and decided that he would like to put his name to it has he felt it is his best work so far. Rather than dropping the VHT name entirely he sold the name to AXL who will use it for their low end practice amps.

spoonbadger · 09-01-2009 08:52PM

Dord wrote: »

Don't forget to get your story right! :rolleyes:

Steven Fryette, the man behind VHT came up with some new ideas for amps and decided that he would like to put his name to it has he felt it is his best work so far. Rather than dropping the VHT name entirely he sold the name to AXL who will use it for their low end practice amps.

To be honest,i prefer the first story. Doesnt make mr. fryette seem like as much of an oppurtunistic sellout :rolleyes:.

Voodu Child · 09-01-2009 09:00PM

Dord wrote: »

Don't forget to get your story right! :rolleyes:

Awesome use of rolleyes, always makes for a great discussion!

Actually, it seems im wrong about the trademark expiring, but that's the info that was going around when I read it first.

But anyway, he certainly didn't 'sell' the name willingly the way you suggest. (So Don't forget to get your story right! :rolleyes:) There was some legal wranglings; they gave him a loan of $150,000 at some stage and he defaulted on it... and they took ownership of the brand and sued him when he kept using it. Eventually he gave up and realised it was a case he would lose.

But whatever, that wasnt the focus of what I wanted to talk about; it was the Chinese made amps with the EXACT logo and name on it, despite having nothing to do with the US amps. Seems like a gas situation, and one that could cause a lot of confusion..

-=al=- · 09-01-2009 09:21PM

oooh score for those craty asians!

i remember something like that happened with 20th century fox... someone registered or trademarked the "21st" Century fox" before they done it... i think he made some $$$ to give the name to them or something

cud be a load of nonsence either way i got a chuckle when i heard that

darrenw5094 · 09-01-2009 09:37PM

-=al=- wrote: »

oooh score for those craty asians!

i remember something like that happened with 20th century fox... someone registered or trademarked the "21st" Century fox" before they done it... i think he made some $$$ to give the name to them or something

You forgot to put a copyright on your Ibanez fretboard design and Korn stole it.
They did'nt even pay you a fricken cent.....:mad:

-=al=- · 09-01-2009 10:17PM

darrenw5094 wrote: »

You forgot to put a copyright on your Ibanez fretboard design and Korn stole it.
They did'nt even pay you a fricken cent.....:mad:

I know, robbed my fretboard design

bastards

Patricide · 10-01-2009 12:20AM

O man thats insane, gonna make me look twice before buying a "vht" again....insane

ham_n_mustard · 10-01-2009 01:34AM

does this make my vht pitbull a "pitburr"?

Dord · 10-01-2009 01:45AM

ham_n_mustard wrote: »

does this make my vht pitbull a "pitburr"?

nah, it'll be a fryette pitbull. AXL just got the name VHT.

ham_n_mustard · 10-01-2009 01:49AM

thanks for taking all the funny out of that (not that there was much...)

Don't forget to renew your trademark..

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