| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Dobro Trademark Ownership | | Date: | Sunday, June 3, 2007 18:15:44 (-0400) | | From: | John E. Dopyera <dopyera @........com>
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Hi Randy: Sorry to have put you on hold. The subject is a touchy one
involving family linen, and given your recent missile, have pretty much
decided to leave further things unsaid. I'll simply repeat what I said
earlier, that, in our culture, one cannot legally give away or sell
something that one doesn't own. Family dynamics what that are and were
suggests that Gabe persuaded Ed, her twin, to do something that had
questionable legality. Enough said except to point out that Gabe had an
overwhelming influence on her twin that apparently Ed was unable to defend
himself against. Anyway, appreciate your interest. John D..
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randolph E. Getz" <bgdobro@ptd.net>
To: <resoguit-l@elistas.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 9:34 AM
Subject: [RESOGUIT-L] Dobro Trademark Ownership
> Ever since the first posting of this topic by John Dopyeras son John, I
> have been trying to get a clear picture of what he was talking about. Part
> of my reasoning for this was a veiled comment that he had made at last
> years "Gathering" that related to the same issue, I started by doing a
> search for Patents/Trademarks and wound up on the US Governments site,
> http://www.uspto.gov/ , and forwarded this to John to allow him to post
> this information on the resoguit-l site which should have cleared the air
> as to who owns the trademark. John replied to me in regards to my email
> and stated that this was not the whole story, but never did give me any
> information which would have contradicted what is on the government site.
> I waited a couple weeks and then informed John that someone else had
> already posted this same information on the reso-nation site and that I
> felt a necessity to put the same information on the resoguit-l site unless
> he could explain the reason for his steadfast opinion that his aunt
> Gabriela did not own the trademark, (from the information on the
> government site I would say that no one individual owned the rights to the
> trademark name Dobro, but that whoever owned the OMI company also owned
> the trademark. A search of the Patents/Trademarks government site will
> reveal that in 1974 Ed Dopyera who at that time was the president of OMI
> assigned the trademark "Dobro" to the OMI Corp. I think this is the area
> that John may have a problem with, however it appears that in the legal
> world the action taken by Ed was totally legal and the rest is history. So
> based on what we know as found on the government site when Gibson
> purchased the company they also bought the trademark. I would think that
> with the legal beagles that Gibson would have had sniff this out that
> nothing would have been overlooked. Further information shows that both
> Chester and Mary Lizak had passed away in 1993 (the same year that Gibson
> bought OMI) Chester in April and Mary in December, this may further
> explain why Gabriela was involved in the sale if in fact she was. I have
> been waiting now for over a month for a reply from John and have heard
> nothing so I am posting this hoping it will clarify who in fact owns the
> "Dobro" trademark.
>
> Randy
>
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