Is there a valid trademark on NLP or Neuro-linguistic Programming?
To the best of my knowledge there are no such trademarks. That is to say, the only trademarks I know of were issued in the UK in late 1997, only to be withdrawn in the summer of 1998; and in Spain, fate unknown. The Spanish trademark was almost certainly invalid on the grounds that it was generic. The organisation that obtained that trademark no longer has a web site and I haven’t been able to discover whether it still exists. If anyone knows different please let me know and I’ll be glad to edit these details accordingly. I have asked several people whose sites feature the NLP label with the trademark suffix – including the NLP Webring – where (geographically) it applies. Few of the people questioned have even replied. No-one has been willing, thus far, to tell me where the trademark(s) is/are registered. You’ll have to draw your own conclusions as to why no answers are forthcoming. By the same token, Richard Bandler’s own website has (at one time or another) listed a string of titles
To the best of my knowledge there are no such trademarks. That is to say, the only trademarks I know of were issued in the UK in late 1997, only to be withdrawn in the summer of 1998; and in Spain, also now withdrawn (as far as I know). The Spanish trademark was almost certainly invalid on the grounds that it was generic. The organisation that obtained that trademark no longer has a web site and I haven’t been able to discover whether it still exists. If anyone knows different please let me know and I’ll be glad to edit these details accordingly. I have asked several people whose sites feature the NLP label with the trademark suffix – including the NLP Webring – where (geographically) it applies. Few of the people questioned have even replied. No-one has been willing, thus far, to tell me where the trademark(s) is/are registered. You’ll have to draw your own conclusions as to why no answers are forthcoming. By the same token, Richard Bandler’s own website has (at one time or another) l
