Cesaroni Technology Incorporated (CTI) began registering the
Pro(-)X(X) labels as the trademarks for their high power reloadable rocket motors after their Pro38 design patent was awarded in 2000. Some examples are:
Since the introduction of the Pro38® line of reloadable high power rocket motors in 2000, the ProX® line by Cesaroni Technology Incorporated (CTI) has grown to cover every total impulse class from F to O.
New! CAR's MC² announces the approval of seventeen new ProXX® motors
Seventeen motors were tested ranging from 24mm through 98mm!
Pro24® Pro38® Pro54® Pro75® Pro98® Pro150®
Aerotech Rocketry (AT) has registered the label
Aerotech Consumer Aerospace(R) but apparently has not registered their other trademarks such as Reloadable Motor System(TM), RMS(TM), Loadable Motor System(TM), LMS(TM) or Reload Delay Kit(TM), RDK(TM) as indicated by the TM designation. See the following examples.
Aerotech announced their
Pro-SU(TM) motor line a month ago as shown below.
2/23/2013
AeroTech Unveils Pro-SU™ Motor Line at NARCON Convention in Santa Clara, CA
AeroTech is introducing a game-changing new product for the high power rocketry market, the Pro-SU™ line of single use motors.
The TM indicates
Pro-SU is not a registered trademark.
As the
Pro-XX trademark for hobby rocket motors was registered by CTI more than a decade ago, and as it costs money to register a trademark which provides product branding protection, and as AT started using the unregistered
Pro-SU trademark for a line of hobby rocket motors this year, it appears that CTI's trademark attorney believes there is a basis for a trademark infringment claim.
Now it's up to the companies. lawyers and courts to figure it out.
For the rest of us, we go fly rockets just like we did before....
Bob