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Thread #62249   Message #1005507
Posted By: GUEST,.gargoyle
20-Aug-03 - 06:24 PM
Thread Name: Urgent: Chemicals in Piano Making?
Subject: RE: Urgent: Chemicals in Piano Making?
Neat Lawsuit about the Heintzman piano and unscrupulus business practices by others attaching the name over Korean imports.

http://www.robic.com/publications/Pdf/142.016.pdf

In 1981, Heintzman Limited was purchased by Sklar-Peppler, Inc., who continued to manufacture Heintzman pianos at the plant in Hanover, Ontario. In 1986 Sklar-Peppler decided to close the plant. It sold its inventory of pianos to 487497 Ontario Limited (The Music Stand). The trade mark HEINTZMAN was eventually to be sold to LEGER ROBIC RICHARD, On November 15 1990, the Federal Court of Canada, Trial Division, rendered a decision which helps define the notion of the distinctive character of a trade-mark.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle