well, looks like it's legitimate and that they are going to try and protect IP bought from Soundfield.
In the UK A&B-Format are registered trademarks that were owned by Soundfield: B-Format (2004) : https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/4/EU002727022 A-Format (2007) : https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/4/EU005348602 Interestingly, Nimbus Records had trademarked Ambisonic but it's now dead: https://ipo.gov.uk/trademark/history/GB50000000001500177.pdf On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 6:42 PM Paul Hodges <pwh-surro...@cassland.org> wrote: > --On 15 September 2018 18:25 +0100 Phi Shu <phi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Surely not something that can be granted considering the terms have > > been widely used for decades? > > Trademark rules are far from obvious. Microsoft trademarked the word > "bookshelf" at one point. > > But I can't see what they think they gain by doing it anyway... > > Paul > > -- > Paul Hodges > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, > edit account or options, view archives and so on. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20180916/c97758d0/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
