Talk:William Underwood Company/Archive 1

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Name of Company

As far as I know it was never called the "Underwood Canning Company", it was always the William Underwood Company. I would have changed the title but I don't see how to. It didn't even use cans when it was started by my great-great-great-great-grandfather. 72.229.151.216 15:52, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Trademark

The author states that Deviled Ham is a trademark of William Underwood Company, and the successors in interest to the Underwood Deviled Ham product. Further he/she states that it is the longest-running food trademark in the U.S. I did not believe this to be true - so I checked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. There is, in fact, no trademark registered for "Deviled Ham," and, given the long term use of the mark and the failure to either file or protect, it is unlikely that one could be obtained at this point. (Albert Case)

The first Underwood trademark was for the the devil logo, registered in 1905, replaced in 1914 by the current form. They both state the devil logo was first used in commerce in February 1868. The linkable page is http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=71000462 for 1905 and http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=71075374 for 1914. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.251.199.128 (talk) 15:46, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Mr. Case, if you look at one of the cans you'll see an (R) next to the devil logo. I am not sure if this is for the logo, or if it is also for the words "Underwood Deviled Ham" because "Underwood" is somewhat part of the logo. I believe it is for the devil logo, as the (R) is also present on the sardines next to the devil logo.

Also, if you search on the USPTO website, you can easily find the live trademark for Underwood: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=2metm1.2.25 . This page indicates that it was "used in a different form" in 1867. There are two other Underwood (Wm. Underwood) registrations on this search page: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=2metm1.1.1&p_search=searchss&p_L=50&BackReference=&p_plural=yes&p_s_PARA1=&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA1%24LD&expr=PARA1+AND+PARA2&p_s_PARA2=underwood&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA2%24COMB&p_op_ALL=AND&a_default=search&a_search=Submit+Query&a_search=Submit+Query .

The company also claims that it is the oldest currently in-use trademark in the US: http://www.underwoodspreads.com/underwd_history.html

According to the Spauldings in Civil War Recipes: Recipts from the Pages of Godey's Lady's Book the devil logo was trademarked in 1867. They take this from Elaine McIntosh's American Food Habits in Historicalk Pespective which was published in 1995. -annonymous 11/24/2012 8:51 AM EST — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.71.217.246 (talk) 13:51, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

There is no such thing as "Deviled" ham. Anyone can use that term. 98.194.39.86 (talk) 02:24, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

Preppie Handbook

I've been told it is also listed in the Preppie Handbook (the hysterical 1980s send-up) as an item to have but have been unable to verify this online, and I don't have a copy of the book (which of course is more reliable than some random web page). --Wmjames (talk) 17:05, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Pikmin 2

It's appearence in Pikmin 2 should be mentioned in this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.45.123.239 (talk) 09:40, 15 January 2008 (UTC) Thanks, have done so. --Wmjames (talk) 17:33, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Involvement with MIT

Most of this section is a verbatim lift from the Biography section of the William Lyman Underwood article. Should it be re-written for this article? Just asking Glane23 (talk) 21:09, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I've seen that in a bunch of places in Wikipedia... It never seems clear where the "original" is or maybe an author wrote a section that they then posted on several pages. Honestly, it doesn't bother me, but maybe there is official Wikipedia policy that I don't know about. I'd like to add cites to it, but it's from the two books and I have neither of them currently (I just ordered one though). I think the section is important in both places since it was an important achievement for both the company and WLU.--Wmjames (talk) 01:48, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

GA Review

I have quick-failed the GA nomination due to a lack of reliable sources. Almost every source is primary, and there are large portions of the article which are unsourced. Ice Cold Beer (talk) 05:30, 15 May 2008 (UTC)