Residential building struck by a missile in southwestern Kyiv Saturday morning

Re:Residential building struck by a missile in southwestern ... by mgdlbp on Monday February 28, 2022 @03:11AM (#30497549)

I thought so as well!

'MLRS is a registered trademark of Lockheed Martin Corporation.'

https://trademarks.justia.com/759/79/mlrs-75979459.html

But for some reason as trademark class 28, toys and sporting goods, with the statement 'toys, namely scale models of military vehicles'.

After some searching: apparently, they mean this:

https://www.brickmania.com/mlrs-multiple-launch-rocket-syste...

Trademarks only apply to their registered class—did they seriously trademark the term just to limit who could sell toys named with it?

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Re:Residential building struck by a missile in southwestern ... by _djo_ on Monday February 28, 2022 @09:07AM (#30499916)

Huh, well I stand corrected.

That is quite a bizarre trademark and I didn't expect it.

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Re:Residential building struck by a missile in southwestern ... by mgdlbp on Monday February 28, 2022 @05:31PM (#30506074)

Ah, they do also have trademarks for the military use and for the full phrase, just realized I stopped searching when I found the first one.

https://trademarks.justia.com/search?q=mlrs

https://trademarks.justia.com/search?q=multiple+launch+rocke...

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Re:Residential building struck by a missile in southwestern ... by _djo_ on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @08:52AM (#30514083)

Thanks for this, again I stand corrected.

I'm amazed that they were granted those trademarks. As I said, MLRS has become a very generic term and from the start it was a US Army name, not invented by Lockheed-Martin.

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