Article: Zippo battles counterfeit lighters

Article: Zippo Trademarks Shape of Its Lighters
AP Online;  February 24, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... image omitted] The Zippo lighter is easily recognizable ... as easy to copy, and Zippo Manufacturing Co ... the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the company has been ... that shape, you say, 'Zippo,' said Jeff Duke ... people remember the old Zippos their fathers and grandfathers ...

Article: Zippo Patents Shape of Its Lighters
AP Online;  February 24, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... image omitted] The Zippo lighter is easily recognizable ... as easy to copy, and Zippo Manufacturing Co ... the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the company has been ... that shape, you say, 'Zippo,' said Jeff Duke ... people remember the old Zippos their fathers and grandfathers ...

Article: Zippo presses efforts to take copycats off market
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  February 25, 2003 ;     536 words ... ... The maker of the Zippo lighter has registered ... the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, promising to run imitators ... that shape, you say, 'Zippo,"' said Jeff Duke ... people remember the old Zippos their fathers and grandfathers ... 000 a few years ago. Zippo says knockoffs consume ...

Article: Zippo lights a flame under copycat makers
Chicago Sun-Times;  February 25, 2003 ;     303 words ... ... Pa.--The maker of the Zippo lighter has registered the ... with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, promising to run imitators ... see that shape, you say, 'Zippo,"' said Jeff Duke, counsel ... George D. Blaisdell in 1932. Zippo's lighters are sheathed with ...

Article: Zippo gets block on knockoffs
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  July 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Zippo Manufacturing Co., a maker of lighters ... decision only on public policy grounds. Zippo has been making lighters in Bradford since ... information on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Web site. Real estate locator closed ...

Article: Zippo(R) Manufacturing Company Produces 400 Millionth ...
PR Newswire;  September 3, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... BRADFORD, Pa., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Zippo Manufacturing Company produced the 400 ... display in the company's museum in the Zippo/Case Visitors Center. (Photo: http ... town of Bradford," said George Duke, Zippo Manufacturing Company Chairman of the Board ...

Article: Zippo(R) Successfully Trademarks Shape of World-Famous ...
PR Newswire;  February 10, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... BRADFORD, Pa., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Zippo Manufacturing Company has been granted ... for the "shape" of the world-famous Zippo Windproof Lighter. The trademark was granted ... PHM007 ) As a result of the ruling, Zippo is informing wholesalers and retailers ...