Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] The World Wide Value of the Leica Name
From: Lucien <director@ubi.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:59:10 +0100

LEICAMAN56@aol.com wrote:
 
> One fly in the ointment here is that Leica does not own the Leica name, but
> in fact licenses it.  This is one strange outcome of Leica going public in
> 1996.  This is also the explanation of why Leica Camera changed its logo from
> the lovely script to the ugly gray block letters with the red Leica dot.  So
> if Leica AG is bought out by a foreign entity (Japanese), the name may not be
> part of the deal!

Bill,

Like the Rolls-Royce surprise.

Lucien