CES 2020 is open January 7 – 10, 2020, in Las Vegas, Nevada, bringing to the world’s eyes gadgets and technology from Big Tech and startups all over the globe.
A product that will be shown at CES is the “Drone,” U.S. Patent No. D860,048 S, issued September 17, 2019. The inventors are Christine Caubel, Sylvain Gerber, Thibaud Keller, Thierry Sanlaville, Mathias Gayraud, and Maxime Ducloux, all of Paris, France. The applicant/assignee is drone tech startup Parrot Drones S.A., of Paris, France.
Figure 1.6 illustrates the drone apparatus design.
The single claim is directed to ornamental design of the drone.
The Cooperative Patent Classification is B64C (aeroplanes, helicopters, namely, stabilizing surfaces with fins (5/06), aircraft capable of landing or taking-off vertically (29/00), supersonic type aircraft (30/00), aircraft not otherwise provided for (39/00) of the remote controlled vehicle type (39/024)).
In addition, ANAFI® is a standard character word trademark registered as U.S. Registration No. 5,859,890 on September 17, 2019, in these International Classes: Class 9, for “Remote control apparatus for drones; software and applications for smartphones and tablets, namely, software to control drones, software to make photographs, software to make films, batteries, electric cables and fiber-optic cables, battery chargers; photographic apparatus and cameras, all these goods for use with a remove-controlled aircraft,” Class 12, for “Drones, remote-controlled aircraft; radio-controlled aircraft,” and Class 28, for “Remote-controlled toy vehicles; toy drones; remote-controlled toy aircraft; radio-controlled toy vehicles; radio-controlled toy aircraft.”
The latter class is curious, since Parrot Drones recently announced it was withdrawing from the toy drone market, after laying off one-third of its workforce. It will be interesting what specimen, if any, it will submit in its §8 sixth-year post-registration declaration filing to support the Class 28 goods identification (15 U.S.C. §1058).
CES always brings out fascinating new consumer tech. If you have any questions on the patent or trademark processes, please contact Yonaxis for more information.