29, Flurries Of Activity, Fountain Pens, & Conklin,

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Except for a few stray, isolated trademarks for fountain pens that preceded it, the Conklin trademark started off, or rather, was the first in another flurry. Trademark no. 47,418, Conklin Pen Co., "Fountain-Pens", Nov 7, 1905, used since June 19, 1905, is for an image of a hand filling a crescent-filling fountain pen from an inkwell, not quite a picture of a hand holding a pen while writing, and also not the trademark for the name "Crescent-Filler". I know it seems late, but the flurry of trademarks for fountain pens didn't come along until the self-filling pens started to predominate. The "proliflurriation" of trademarks came about, not only in conjunction with the proliferation of the self-filling systems, but also along with the wide success of the fountain pen generally, and the realization by the pen companies that there was a need to protect their product names and symbols.

 

George Kovalenko.

 

 

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Edited June 24, 2010 by rhr