Surprised Ferrari didnt have 308 registered to stop Peugeot using it.
In they way that IIRC Peugeot stopped Porsche calling the 911 the 901.
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Edited by Pugugly {P} on 14/11/2007 at 18:55
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I think Peugeot registered all the n0n numbers years ago.
Edited by Pugugly {P} on 14/11/2007 at 18:54
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If so why did they stop Porsche using 901 and not Ferrari using 206, 208, 308 ?
Edited by Pugugly {P} on 14/11/2007 at 18:55
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Some people were not happy when the Pontiac GTO went on sale, only a few years after the Ferrari 250 GTO, putting a thoroughbred name on a mass market car...
Edited by Pugugly {P} on 14/11/2007 at 18:55
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Some names are generic and hence un-registerable.
These days you could not register "Hoover" or "JCB" because they have become descriptive of an item. SWMBO now hoovers the floor, she does not say she is going to Panasonic it (vacuum it with her Panasonic vacuum cleaner).
Like the story told by an IPR lawyer about the man who rang a JCB parts dept for a part for his JCB, when they could not identify it they asked him what model his JCB was to which he relied "it is a Ford ..........."
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>>These days you could not register "Hoover" or "JCB" because they have become descriptive of an item>>
These days you could not register "Hoover" or "JCB" because they are already registered, if they were not you could.
It is a bit of a conundrum, after all if they had not been previously registered as brand names by succesful companies then they would not have become generic terms.
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If so why did they stop Porsche using 901 and not Ferrari using 206 208 308 ?
Manufacturers have hundreds, possibly thousands or model names/numbers registered - it's not uncommon for them to licence unused/unwanted names from another manufacturer.
Perhaps Ferrari were prepared to pay a non-exclusive license fee but Porsche weren't?
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On early Ferrari's the nomeclature was based on the individual cylinder capacity of a 12 cyl engine, i.e. a 330GTC was 4.0ltr.
Later they used the the capacity and number of cyls, i.e. a 308 was a 3.0 8 cyl and a 512 was a 5.0 12 cyl. Likewise the pre turbo 3 ltr era F1 cars were always 312s.
Perhaps Ferrari had registered this process thus overcoming any objection from Peugeot, anyone know for sure?
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