Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] The World Wide Value of the Leica Name
From: LEICAMAN56@aol.com
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 00:57:33 EST

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 Rosauer