Mini Speaker cabinet from Huddersfield UK is a recent [2007] arrival to the USA
for this 6-7 year old RED 2 Channel Amp.
RED Amp logo is a 1999 USA Trade Mark Owned
Logo.
The first versions were made
in the UK for MATAMP USA and debut on www.matamp.com
After 2005, the USA Logos were
suppose to cease in the UK, as they are 100% USA Owned.
Considering the RED amp was
made from Ashdown parts stock, it is doubtful to expect
regard for TM's and LOGOS.
Back
in the mid 90's the same outfit was notorious for old
crusty amps covered in Green.
Then
in the later part of the 90's Matamp UK made use of ORANGE
parts
The millenium
kicked off with all sorts of different Matamp's
on Ashdown chassis and design.
Here illustrates, by this recent
arrival to the USA of a bootleg RED logo badged mini
4x12 cab from Huddersfield UK.
The US
Patent Trademark Office recently had their Global conference with several
seminars
dealing
directly with these type of infringements.
Intellectual
Content, First In Use and Trademark Laws were outlined.
A slide
show of several USA Trade Marks illustrating the bootleg production in
the UK
was submitted
to the USPTO in 2006 by two USA Pro Audio Corporations.
In 2007
US Customs and the Attorney General of Michigan were contacted to begin
investigation
on bootleg
import logo items into the USA .
Authentic RED Amp logo items
are legally available only from ELECTRIC
AMP, USA
It sucks to see a cool company's
logo mounted on a mini glued & stapled, plastic handled,
generic import box.
The best that we can hope is they might have loaded
some USA Speakers in it.
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