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Originally Posted by Spartan198
I thought a Supreme Court ruling threw out Colt's trademark?
But, at any rate, the M4 and its technical package becomes government property in June, I believe. Of course, whether or not that also applies to the nomenclature "M4" (assuming I'm incorrect and Colt's trademark is still valid) is an entirely different story.
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It didn't go to that high of a court.
The ruling was that M4 was a generic term that could not be copyrighted since "M4" and "M4A1" are designations used by the US military so therefore those names fall in the public domain.