TODAY’S TRADEMARK – NISSAN
The Company filed for the Trademark ‘NISSAN’ with the USPTO on March 21, 1989 and was assigned registration number 1531246. The mark has been in use since September 1960.
With its headquarters located in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. is a multinational automotive manufacturer from Japan. The company sells cars under the Nissan and Infiniti brands, formerly known as Datsun, and its own line of performance-tuned cars under the Nismo and Autech brands. The Nissan zaibatsu, or Nissan Group as it is currently known, was the company’s forerunner at the start of the 20th century.
Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors of Japan have partnered with Renault of France since 1999 to form the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, with Mitsubishi joining in 2016. After Toyota, Volkswagen Group, Hyundai Motor Group, General Motors, and Ford, Nissan ranked as the sixth-largest carmaker globally in 2017. Nissan held the top spot as North America’s largest automaker in 2014. Nissan, the top Japanese brand in China, Russia, and Mexico, ranked ninth globally in terms of revenue in 2022, coming in at $78 billion.
Nissan sold more than 320,000 all-electric cars worldwide as of April 2018, making it the biggest producer of electric vehicles (EVs) in the world. The Nissan LEAF, which is the second-best-selling electric car worldwide, only behind the Tesla Model 3, is the best-selling model in the automaker’s entirely electric lineup.