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Originally Posted by Matt Krass
Actually the logo is on the Vex box, I just checked, it's on the side where it says "Engineered for FIRST"
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thats what I meant. Since its a registered trademark that means some company in China cannot start making robot kits and call them FIRST robots, and sell them online or in Target and Kmart
not with the FIRST logo, not with any variation of the FIRST logo.
The reason why we cant vary it is: only the exact depections of the logo that FIRST has on record at the trademark office are the official FIRST logos. They cant trademark the word 'first' itself, so that no one is every able to put 'first' on a box of anything - and they dont own circles triangles and squares.
So if FIRST allowed people to use any and all variations of their logo to refer to their organization, they would eventually loose all the trademark rights.
Does this make sense? Not sure if I have explained it clearly?