Quote from: SarDragon on Today at 11:47:55 AMTrademark - A word, symbol, or phrase used to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products. Especially, such a term that is registered with a government agency so as to have legal protection against use by other companies. Coordinate terms: brandname, brand name, service mark, tradename, trade name, wordmark.

I used to work for a company that had a name that was synonymous with its product.

Think like "Kleenex." That is the company's name, but almost nobody says  "I need a Kleenex®-brand facial tissue," they just say "gimme a kleenex."

Man, the legal and marketingfolks  were *death* on any employee who referred to the product by the company's name. 

(the company was "Segway." yes, that Segway. The product was the Personal Transporter, or "PT", but I challenge you to find anybody but a former Segway employee who will call that device anything but a "Segway."  Thanks a lot, Paul Blart!)

Relevant YouTube video I just found:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRi8LptvFZY

Here's a little primer on intellectual property (IP). It's broadly divided into three groups: patents, copyrights, and trademarks.

Patent - A declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period. Physical things, like machines, processes, formulas, etc.

Copyright - The right by law to be the entity which determines who may publish, copy and distribute a piece of writing, music, picture or other work of authorship.

Trademark - A word, symbol, or phrase used to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products. Especially, such a term that is registered with a government agency so as to have legal protection against use by other companies. Coordinate terms: brandname, brand name, service mark, tradename, trade name, wordmark.

Here's a specific bit of law regarding CAP's IP:

36 U.S. Code § 40306 - Exclusive right to name, insignia, copyrights, emblems, badges, marks, and words

The corporation has the exclusive right to use the name "Civil Air Patrol" and all insignia, copyrights, emblems, badges, descriptive or designating marks, words, and phrases the corporation adopts. This section does not affect any vested rights.
(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1332.)

There's a lot more here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/ . Search for "civil air patrol"

Quote from: GroundHawg on Yesterday at 06:51:20 PMI am assuming National as it pertains to a design patent

Yeah, check CAPR 110-3 and CAPR 900-2 as far as CAP corporate emblems and their usage is concerned. Vanguard and other retailers aren't going to be any use, they just print and manufacture what they're given.

If you need any help, the History section at NHQ has two emails and a phone number published on the NHQ contacts page on their website.

Quote from: GroundHawg on Yesterday at 06:51:20 PM

Quote from: SierraOneThree on Yesterday at 04:40:19 PMThere are numerous heraldry organizations/units. Which are you needing?

I am assuming National as it pertains to a design patent

Design patent of what?   CAP Regulation 110-3, 25 January 2021 covers the CAP Heraldry Program, maybe your answer is in there.

Google's top answer for "Institute of Heraldry" is one run by the U.S. Army and does have a contact email address prominently shared. Is that who you're looking for?

I'm afraid the way you posed your question and then answered "national" for what organization you're looking for is making it difficult to understand who you're actually looking for.

Quote from: SierraOneThree on Yesterday at 04:40:19 PMThere are numerous heraldry organizations/units. Which are you needing?

I am assuming National as it pertains to a design patent

There are numerous heraldry organizations/units. Which are you needing?

Vanguard is not helping I dont know if its a language barrier or if they are intentionally being obtuse ... Does anyone have a POC for the IOH that I can reach out to please?

Quote from: Fubar on May 19, 2024, 11:00:15 AMOf course the issue would be getting the USAF to sign off one giving up their bureaucracy and pre-approving CAP to get uniforms. That doesn't seem like something a bureaucracy would do.

For some reason, that line made me think of Sir Humphrey Appleby from the BBC political comedy Yes, Prime Minister.  It's just a line Sir Humphrey would say.

Jack

Quote from: Shuman 14 on May 18, 2024, 07:32:29 PMAgain, this is why we need to put a clause in CAPR 39-1 that within 5-years of any uniform change by the USAF, it will be adopted, with appropriate CAP modification, by CAP.

Of course the issue would be getting the USAF to sign off one giving up their bureaucracy and pre-approving CAP to get uniforms. That doesn't seem like something a bureaucracy would do.