Re: WCAP web site??

[Dan Billings <billingsdan@yahoo.com>]

--- "Aaron [Bishop] Read"
<aread@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> As a federal-assigned identifier of a
publicly-held
> license, CAN call 
> letters be legally trademarked?  I mean, how does
> that work when you've got 
> the same call letters ending up on five different
> stations - and five 
> different owners - within five years?

To be eligible for a federal trademark, the mark must
be used in interstate commerce.  For radio stations
that serve one state that would be a problem. 
However, trademarks owned under state registration or
state common law are enforceable without federal
registration.  I haven't specifically researched the
question but I think a radio station could claim a
trademark in call letters while they are in use.  

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine

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