Yenko brand reborn?

[1970Bluel78]

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If you don't have a dog in the fight than leave it alone.

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HUH?? So no opinions should be put forth ? only maybe yours? So far everyones been cordial and OK with opinions on many subjects here and I hope we can continue down that path and talk about all the cars we loved from yesteryear and respect all the opinions even yours. Judging from a PM I received there are more then a few who don't like the idea of Yenko on a 2010 car.To each his own, right Kim. If your jonesing for one buy it if not don't buy it but by all means talk about it

[Chevy454]

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Originally posted by: 1970Bluel78

HUH?? So no opinions should be put forth ? only maybe yours? So far everyones been cordial and OK with opinions on many subjects here and I hope we can continue down that path and talk about all the cars we loved from yesteryear and respect all the opinions even yours. Judging from a PM I received there are more then a few who don't like the idea of Yenko on a 2010 car.To each his own, right Kim. If your jonesing for one buy it if not don't buy it but by all means talk about it

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LOL...you could say the exact same thing if the subject of the thread had been titled "Tom Clary gives away $100 bills", because there's a certain number of folks that would be p!ssed they weren't $1,000 bills, and that dad was behind it!

[ORIGLS6]

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LOL...you could say the exact same thing if the subject of the thread had been titled "Tom Clary gives away $100 bills", because there's a certain number of folks that would be p!ssed they weren't $1,000 bills, and that dad was behind it!

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[sYc]

For the past several days I have been exchanging emails with members of the Yenko family, who just learned of GMCI's press release, where Jeff Leonard claimed “ownership of the classic trademark”. They were quite surprised to learn that the rights to the Yenko name had been sold without their knowledge. As are all of us, they are wondering how anyone besides the family could sell the rights to their family name. Needless to say they are not pleased with the current situation, and are looking at their options in regaining any and all rights to the use of the Yenko name.

[motionwannabe]

Thats the best thing Ive heard yet in this entire thread. Hopefully they can prove GMCIs ownership trademark is no good.

[427.060]

Maybe I missed it but who sold GMCI the "rights" to the name?
James

[MosportGreen66]

what is GMCI?

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For what it's worth.....I'm not an attorney but I've had considerable experience with trademarks and in the end it doesn't really matter who has or owns the registration filed at the patent & trademark office. The bottom line is who can show prior and continuos use of the trademark in commerce...period. Trademarks are protected by the owner using them not by a registration number. However, the other side of the coin is if the original owner of a trademark knew it was being used by others and did not try to prevent it's use that may be considered having abandoned the trademark. I would think in this case being a family name as well as a business name it would be somewhat easy to show continuos use. I would hope so anyway.

I know in my case my family had a product we manufactured for over 20 years under a trade name. We never had the name trademarked but when our biggest competitor found out that the name was considered abandon by the P&TO he ran out and filed a trademark on it and sent me a letter demanding that I stop using the name as it now belong to him. At that point. he started using it. Sorry it does not work that way. Obviously we could show prior and continuos use of the trademark so his registration was reversed ours was filed and he had to pay me 20K to boot for violating MY trademark. It was protected by my family using it not by a registration number.

[motionwannabe]

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For what it's worth.....I'm not an attorney but I've had considerable experience with trademarks and in the end it doesn't really matter who has or owns the registration filed at the patent & trademark office. The bottom line is who can show prior and continuos use of the trademark in commerce...period. Trademarks are protected by the owner using them not by a registration number. However, the other side of the coin is if the original owner of a trademark knew it was being used by others and did not try to prevent it's use that may be considered having abandoned the trademark. I would think in this case being a family name as well as a business name it would be somewhat easy to show continuos use. I would hope so anyway.

I know in my case my family had a product we manufactured for over 20 years under a trade name. We never had the name trademarked but when our biggest competitor found out that the name was considered abandon by the P&TO he ran out and filed a trademark on it and sent me a letter demanding that I stop using the name as it now belong to him. At that point. he started using it. Sorry it does not work that way. Obviously we could show prior and continuos use of the trademark so his registration was reversed ours was filed and he had to pay me 20K to boot for violating MY trademark. It was protected by my family using it not by a registration number.

[/ QUOTE ]Hopefully everyone involved reads this post

[old5.0]

I do not currently, have never, and probably will never, own a Yenko Camaro. I won't bore anyone with my opinions on reviving the name, nor on Detroit's current "retro" obsession, but I'll say this. If a 2010 Yenko Camaro is going to be built, this should be it's "home". It doesn't take one long to figure out that there is no group of people on earth more passionate and enthusiastic about these cars than the people here. That passion and enthusiasm for the cars themselves is refreshing to be around, even for a Ford junkie.