TODAY’S TRADEMARK – AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INC.

The American Electric Power (AEP) is a major investor-owned electric utility in the United States. AEP is one of the U.S.’s largest generators of electricity. It also owns the U.S.’s  largest electricity transmission system which owns transmission lines more than all other U.S. transmission systems combined.

The American Gas and Electric Company, later renamed as American Electric Power in 1959, was incorporated in 1906. The company replaced Electric Company of America, a holding company that existed since 1899.

The company is divided into seven major geographic local operating companies: AEP Ohio, AEP Texas, Appalachian Power, Indiana Michigan Power, Kentucky Power, Public Service Company of Oklahoma and Southwestern Electric Power Company. In 2009, AEP entered into a deal with Wyandot Solar LLC to purchase power from one of the largest solar fields in the eastern United States, based in Upper Sandusky, Ohio.

The trademark of “American Electric Power Company, Inc.” was registered in USPTO bearing registration number 1486484 on April 26, 1988.