Genifuel's US 20140045229 re-writes "ethyl" history
Note paragraph 7 of Genifuel's US 20140045229 relates the "ethyl" trademark to ethanol, rather than to gasoline with tetraethyllead, an antiknock additive.
From paragraph 7:
The use of biofuels generally is by no means a new or novel idea. In fact, some of the earliest internal combustion engines ran on biofuels. When Rudolf Diesel developed the diesel engine, the fuel he used was peanut oil. Henry Ford was committed to the use of ethanol in his cars, and one of the best-known early trademarks for fuel stations in the US was "Ethyl." Both peanut oil and ethanol were, of course, displaced by petroleum-based products including diesel fuel and gasoline as those products became abundant and cheap. Because of the economic, environmental, and political factors mentioned above, however, the advantage of petroleum is now disappearing and biofuels are once again becoming a top candidate fuel for vehicles.
Note from the case Ethyl Gasoline Corporation v. Craver, 4 F.Supp. 264 (1933) :
It is alleged by plaintiff that it is the owner of sundry registered trade-marks either
arising from purchase or otherwise, and that said trade-marks contain the arbitrary word "Ethyl," which it says was adopted as a distinguishing mark for a compound developed by plaintiff or its predecessors.
On August 5, 1924, it caused a registration of its said trade-mark, and thereafter registered such word in connection with other compounds seven times, the last one being August 2, 1932. It is charged in the bill that the compound thus developed by the plaintiff became popular in the operation of automobiles, both as a fuel and otherwise, and, by reason of its wide advertisement, was used extensively throughout the United States, and that the trade-mark "Ethyl" became associated and identified with plaintiff's product.
And within
The court held that, because of the registrations and use of the word by plaintiff, this gave it absolute ownership, and that the defendant was without right to appropriate and use said word. Judge Atwell went further, and indicated that, wholly apart from the registration, "the name `Ethyl,' and the phrase `Ethyl Gasoline Corporation,' have acquired and now possess a distinct and identifying significance and refer to the complainant's products and motor fuels, with which complainant's anti-knock compound is mixed, and to complainant's business generally."
From paragraph 7:
The use of biofuels generally is by no means a new or novel idea. In fact, some of the earliest internal combustion engines ran on biofuels. When Rudolf Diesel developed the diesel engine, the fuel he used was peanut oil. Henry Ford was committed to the use of ethanol in his cars, and one of the best-known early trademarks for fuel stations in the US was "Ethyl." Both peanut oil and ethanol were, of course, displaced by petroleum-based products including diesel fuel and gasoline as those products became abundant and cheap. Because of the economic, environmental, and political factors mentioned above, however, the advantage of petroleum is now disappearing and biofuels are once again becoming a top candidate fuel for vehicles.
Note from the case Ethyl Gasoline Corporation v. Craver, 4 F.Supp. 264 (1933) :
It is alleged by plaintiff that it is the owner of sundry registered trade-marks either
arising from purchase or otherwise, and that said trade-marks contain the arbitrary word "Ethyl," which it says was adopted as a distinguishing mark for a compound developed by plaintiff or its predecessors.
On August 5, 1924, it caused a registration of its said trade-mark, and thereafter registered such word in connection with other compounds seven times, the last one being August 2, 1932. It is charged in the bill that the compound thus developed by the plaintiff became popular in the operation of automobiles, both as a fuel and otherwise, and, by reason of its wide advertisement, was used extensively throughout the United States, and that the trade-mark "Ethyl" became associated and identified with plaintiff's product.
And within
The court held that, because of the registrations and use of the word by plaintiff, this gave it absolute ownership, and that the defendant was without right to appropriate and use said word. Judge Atwell went further, and indicated that, wholly apart from the registration, "the name `Ethyl,' and the phrase `Ethyl Gasoline Corporation,' have acquired and now possess a distinct and identifying significance and refer to the complainant's products and motor fuels, with which complainant's anti-knock compound is mixed, and to complainant's business generally."
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