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DiabeticPissingSyrup t1_it55gin wrote

Huh. I didn't know there were trademarks before the 1875 trademarks act. The Bass triangle was my one pub trivia fact...

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Foreign-Complaint130 t1_it5y1ep wrote

This is one of those "claiming the precursor to the thing is the same as the thing" situations.

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Rossum81 t1_it7a7fb wrote

Right. There were marks used by artisans, craftsmen, smiths and other manufacturers in classical antiquity. This is a slightly different (though analogous) example.

The first trademark law in the modern sense was either in Bohemia under the Austrian-Hungarian Empire or France in 1857.

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9tailNate t1_it5nb5j wrote

Seals, heraldry, printers' marks, and the like. Bass was the first registered UK trademark under a modern act.

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