Thread: Attention knife and razor makers

maybe they're going broke And this is their last desperate stand.

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Baxxer's point is that they have trademarked a logo, the image of SAN MAI and the three squiggly lines. Unless a maker was using that image, Cold Steel will have a difficult time arguing there is some inappropriate use of the logo. Their statement admits to the difference between an image and a process. As far as my reading leads me, no one has yet taken this to court for an opinion.

My experience tells me that often the unknowing (or believing that they are not knowledgeable) are accused of some infraction and simply give up because the apparent authority says so. The more you know, the less there is to fear.

Something else is motivating this as "news" in the knife world. If you wanted to argue it, anyone using suminagashi steel is in violation of the trademark, except there is no mark, merely three layer construction. There are a lot of big companies using multi bar construction steel. I have some friends working with them and I will pose this very question. Someone has to have bounced off Cold Steel in between now and 1986.