[Jukebox-list] "Phonograph" TM--was----iPod on the jukebox?

[David Breneman]

--- Ron Rich <ronnnrich at yahoo.com> wrote:

> David, 
>   Do you know who owned the trademark for the word "Phonograph" ?

Thomas Edison.

The three big companies at the turn of the last century:

Berliner/Victor (patent lawsuit still in progress): Gramophone
Columbia (oldest surviving record label in the world): Graphophone
Edison:  Phonograph

The generic term was talking machine, and in fact
Victor, when it was finally formed from Berliner's
and Johnson's patents, was called the Victor Talking
Machine Company, because there was some confusion as
to whether Berliner still owned the name Gramophoone.



David Breneman         david_breneman at yahoo.com


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