TODAY’S TRADEMARK – THE ASSOCIATION OF BONE AND JOINT SURGEONS 1947

The trademark of this company was registered in USPTO bearing registration number 2729220 on June 24, 2003.

The official seal for the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons was created at the request of Milton Cobey in 1954. The skeleton of the snake from the staff of Aesculapius was envisioned encompassing a non-distorted tree, implying the long-range objectives of orthopaedic surgery. The elected temporary chairman is Earl McBride and Fritz Teal is the temporary secretary. The association was created in the year 1947 by a troop of orthopaedic specialists made out of Earl D. Mc Bride, Louis Breck, Louis Greene, Frank Hand, Duncan McKeever, and Garett Pipkin, joined by Edward T. Evans, Harry Fortin, Fritz Teal, Vernon Thompson, and Theodore H. Vinke as the “American Bone and Joint Association”.

The said association was set up as a result of the fast development in the field of orthopaedic medical procedures around then, as well as restricted projects and meetings offered by the existing orthopaedic groups and just and only one orthopaedic publication, they concluded that another association ought to be made. The motivation behind the Association was to give more youthful men in orthopaedic surgery one more association in which to present papers, publish manuscripts, and share experiences. Under the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons membership was offered by invitation to orthopaedic specialists under fifty years old who had been certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery something like three years beforehand. The Association thereby for its contributions awarded Corro Ors Richard A. Brand Award, Nicolas Andry Lifetime Achievement Award, and Marshall R. Urist Young Investigator Award.