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ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
Abelman, Frayne, &Schwab
This Week In Intellectual Property History for the Week of May 1-7, 2011
On May 4, 1920, Joseph Dixon Crucible Company received a trademark registration for their TICONDEROGA brand of pencils:
During the 1860's, people still wrote with quill pens and ink, even though Joseph Dixon introduced the first graphite pencil in 1829. It wasn't until the Civil War that the demand for a dry, clean, portable writing instrument became popular and led to the mass production of pencils. Joseph Dixon was the first to develop pencil automation. By 1872, the company was making 86,000 pencils a day.
In 1913, the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company introduced a revolutionary new pencil that was pleasing to the fingers with a writing core that was stronger & smoother than any other pencil. The company wanted "a fine American name for a fine American pencil." They named it after Fort Ticonderoga.
In 1982, the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company merged with the Bryn Mawr Corporation, a Pennsylvania transportation and real estate company with operations dating back to 1795. Together, these companies formed the Dixon Ticonderoga Company, named after Joseph Dixon and its oldest brand-name pencil.
