In view of our eyes on the way Eastman Kodak Its brand is allowed to be used on everything from solar panels to T-shirts, we are looking at the way other historical camera brands are being used.
In the case of Kodak, there is a continuous link to the company that licenses the name that builds the brand in the first place. Eastman Kodak may have sold its photo film business as part of its bankruptcy reorganization, but today’s corporate unit is still located in Rochester, New York, and still focused on the rest of its business to focus on products sold in its name.
Use it or lose it
This is not always the case, though. In most countries, trademarks remain only valid if they are being used and are actively preserved. If you are not using a trademark or it can be shown that you are not trying to defend it, someone else may come together and challenge its use.
This is currently happening in Europe and UK, where there is a Dubai -based property developer Arguing that trademark James Bond has not been used It should be canceled by its owners for more than five years and therefore. There is a comparable process in America: An episode of NPR’s Planet Money Looked at the story of a person who did a business to challenge the trademark and re -launch defective confectionery brands.
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One of the previous Konika Minolta products was Dianax / Maxxum 7D, which featured the world’s first DSLR in-body image stabilization. The company using the name Minolta is not connected to the original Konika Minolta today, which is still operated in an array of industries. Photo: dpreview.com |
It is through this process that Minolta-branded cameras have recently appeared in US stores such as costco, bestbuy and B&H photos. Original owner, Konika-Minolta, Sell his camera business to Sony in 2006Who initially used his own techniques in a series of A-Mount DSLR before going into his own e-mount mirrorless system, was developed internal.
California brand licensing company JMM Lee Property with Konika-Minolta Trademark challenged More honored in 2015 Right to use it for a series of photographic objectsJMM Lee’s business model appears to find and claim the abandoned brand names, which then licenses other companies. For example, if you want to enter the power tool business, JMM Lee can give you a license named Renault Brand for the US Market.
‘Minolta’ by Shenzen Soda Digital for Elite Brands, ‘Minolta,’
The Minolta brand is currently being licensed to Elite Brands Inc. with New York-Classy, which is the American importer of Samyang Lens. Therefore, the cameras currently seen in costco are made for elite brands, which also give licenses to the Bell + Howell Brand for some products.
Some of the Minolta-branded cameras share their glasses with models introduced by Asia Optical, a Taiwanese OEM manufacturer who is making Kodak-branded cameras for JK Imaging More than a decade,
Other models include $ 99 Minolta MND23, a camera, described as a 48MP point and is shot with 16X digital zoom and the ability to capture 4K UHD videos. Take a close look at the glasses It shows that Sony has a 13MP sensor from the semiconductor (very possibly a type 1/3, 17 mm chip) that can shoot 4K resolution up to 10fps.
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Minolta MND70 shares his glasses with Songdian DC203s created by Soda Digital Technology. Picture: Minolta |
3.37 mm f2.2 lenses and each other behind the camera, the presence of ‘selfie’ sensors matches the glasses of a lens that appears in a variety of products from the Chinese manufacturer Shenzen Soda Digital Technology Company
And, likewise, the camera sold for $ 179 Minolta mnd70 Although all its major glasses share DC203 of the same companyJust to guess what it means for the name of the minolta that is considered to be, amateur photographer (and in the east DPREVIEWS) The technical editor bought a DC202, which lacks 203 Wi-Fi and selfie cameras, about £ 40 (∼ $ 54). They described it as ‘as’The worst camera i have ever used,
With thanks to the forum user Ishwanu For background on trademark cases.
