Nissan aim to trademark Eau Rouge

[Erwin Greven]

Or Joe Bob...

 

[Ken Verhagen]

shameful Nissan, shameful!

 

[David O'Reilly]

I thought you couldn't trademark the names geographical landmarks.
Cause if you can, then what would stop me from registering a "Mount Everest" trademark? Just imagine all those tourist agencies having to pay a fee to use the trademark name or rename the mountain to something else...

IMO you are correct in your central point that a well known/iconic expression cant be trademarked by someone not related to it.
It would be like trademarking "Awesome" or "Huge" etc.
They are pissing into the wind with this one.

Nissan dont always nail it with names
Remember the "Nissan Cedric"
second only to the "Mitsubishi Pajero"
in errors of judgement.

 

[Blkout]

Very strange. It isn't even a good name for a car. I guess car companies are running out of ideas for names. They should just call it Bob instead. It would make about as much sense.

I would have been happy with something as simple as the Q50 GT.

 

[Erwin Greven]

Or the Citroën Jumpy or Cactus...

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

For quite some years Opel sells the awesome Astra OPC Nürburgring Edition. Have they trademarked the ring for it?

 

[Yves Larose]

there are plenties of cars names that uses iconic race track names also here's a few

Shelby Daytona
Ferrari Daytona
Pontiac LeMans

and none of them have trademarked it so i'm wondering why Nissan wants to trademark Eau rouge

 

[Von Butters]

I side with everyone here at bring pretty much ticked off with this move by Nissan.
Instead of shooting on here though, we should all make our feelings known to Nissan.
Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are effective tools in letting companies know when their potential customers are pissed of with them, and if enough of us tell them so, we can get them to change their mind