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Originally Posted by Pat R
I must have misunderstood your post I thought you were talking about ALC registering cigarette brands and the link you posted doesn't work for me.
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Let me try links again, validated these
1909:
https://www.google.com/books/edition...gQ7_IDegQICxAD
1911:
https://www.google.com/books/edition...J?hl=en&gbpv=0
ALC appears to be registering cigarette brands as trademarks. ALC is the printer of advertisements, pack wrappers, labels, cards, etc.. I found it odd they appear to be registering trademarks of cigarette brands for themselves. I would think this would obviously be something the ATC would do. When my company has a vendor print stuff or design a label, they don't get copyright to our brands. Again, the connection between the ALC and their apparent shadow subsidiaries and the ATC seems quite unusual. I'd love to stand corrected, perhaps I am misreading the source, but it strikes me as very odd.