Road Trip Trademark

I know its a long shot. It is a Cedar Fair trademark that could be for any park. It was applied for on 12/2/2011. At first I thought it could be for a promotion or sweepstakes but after looking at the uses and the explanation of classification codes, it seems to be for a ride. Wondering if anyone else has seen this. Just thought I'd share. Take from it what you will. The TESS trademark search had it listed as well but I like the setup of this site better.

http://www.trademarkia.com/road-trip-85485823.html

Hard to say at this point if it's for Cedar Point or has any significant meaning.

The company had an application for Stratosoar and ended up going with a different name. The Stratosoar application has since been abandoned.

I thought the same thing. I guess I assumed they abandoned Stratosoar when they went with the Mondial Windseeker instead of the Funtimes Starflyer. Just thought I'd share what off-season anticipation can lead to.

It deffently looks like it could be for a ride, it doesn't sound like a coaster though. IMO, it sounds like a dark ride.

Still think it should be stratosoar regardless of the company that built the ride, sick of all these boring names that are the same across parks.

I'm pretty sure Stratosaur was to name a 400 foot Starflyer (strato refering to stratocoaster.) They went with Mondial's 300 footer so the strato part of the name becomes worthless.

Are you guys sure that this is for a new ride somewhere throughout the chain? If you read a little more into it and see what other trademarks CF has filed since 1/1, you'll see "Thrills Connect" and "Twogether is Better" as the other two filings. (Source)

To me, "Road Trip", along with the above two filings, just seems like marketing trademarks, similar to "The Roller Coaster Capital of the World!" or "Tickets to Die For", but targeting families instead of teenagers and thrill seekers.

Just my two cents.

It certainly sounds like this would fit perfectly an advertising slogan rather than the name of a new ride.

RideWarrior18 said:
Are you guys sure that this is for a new ride somewhere throughout the chain? If you read a little more into it and see what other trademarks CF has filed since 1/1, you'll see "Thrills Connect" and "Twogether is Better" as the other two filings. (Source)

To me, "Road Trip", along with the above two filings, just seems like marketing trademarks, similar to "The Roller Coaster Capital of the World!" or "Tickets to Die For", but targeting families instead of teenagers and thrill seekers.

Just my two cents.

That's a pretty interesting page of all the trademarks. I wonder where Leviathan, Behemoth, maXair and rides like that are? I don't totally understand how trademarks work.

^There are 3 types of trademarks:

Unregistered (TM): this one is used to promote a product or good.
Unregistered (SM): used to promote a service.

Registered (R): used to promote all of what is written above. However, if someone were to use the proper name or image of the registered product, they could be prosecuted for infringement. I don't know if this is a good comparison or not, but I kind of think of a registered trademark like a patent for images.

So is TM just for a name and R is for a entire image.

In the description of Road trip you find this:
(among lots of other things)

"Amusement park rides; puzzles; stuffed toy animals; light up toys"

And in the description of the classification codes you find this:

"Common metals and their alloys; metal building materials; transportable buildings of metal; materials of metal for railway tracks; nonelectric cables and wires of common metal; ironmongery, small items of metal hardware; pipes and tubes of metal; safes; goods of common metal not included in other classes; ores."

The other recently filed trademarks mentioned above do not contain this phrasing. It seems to have all the descriptions the other rides have. And I would think Leviathan and Behemoth would be filed in Canada, but I'm not sure how that would work.

Edit: Ok, Thrills Connect does have that in the description but Twogether is Better does not.

Trademark infringers are not prosecuted. It's not criminal law. It's not even a lock that you can win in court, but it does make it more likely that you can win a lawsuit, and maybe even be granted an injunction early on.

The only difference between the use of (TM) and (R) is that the latter is officially registered with the USPTO, and is therefore easier to defend in court.

Jeff said:
easier to defend

Sadly, I can verify that. :)

Yes, the punch-stupid-people-in-the-face defense is sadly not endorsed by the courts.

Could it be for a MotoCoaster like Pony Express at Knotts or Moto Coaster at Darien Lake?