Kentucky Colonel (License)
Kentucky Colonel (License)
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Get listed in the New Kentucky Colonels Handbook (Historical Edition) with the Original Kentucky Colonels.
The Kentucky Colonel™ (title as a trademark) belongs to the recipient of the Kentucky Colonel Commission that is using it in association with their name, personal identity, as a moniker, for their invention, a recipe, as an author, with a product or with a business to represent their connection to the Commonwealth of Kentucky as a colonel for their personal gain and honorable reward. Colonel Sanders did it and all colonels should!
In common-law there is no requirement to use the (TM) symbol, there is a law that states that Kentucky colonels cannot use the ® or © symbols particularly "Kentucky Colonel ®" because that would suggest representing one of the Arbitrary, Suggestive, Fanciful or Artistic and otherwise unrelated non-descriptive uses of the term that have been registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office.
The term Kentucky Colonel appears on literally hundreds of products in Americana starting with Bourbon and Tobacco before 1850. The term was used in commerce for hemp production and agriculture as early as 1840 by Col. Cassius Clay of Whitehall. The Kentucky Colonel has a rich history as a title and in its use to demonstrate authority, power and influence as an officer of the state. Early Kentucky colonelcy was acquired by knowing a colonel, it was possible to become one.
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