claymation

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 12/6/05, Alice Faber <faber at haskins.yale.edu> wrote:
>
> Bethany K. Dumas wrote:
> > I saw my first claymation movie this morning. Since then I have found it
> > all over the web - it appears to be a registered mark, though the term is
> > widely used in a generic sense, it seems.
> >
>
> It's got to be at least 20 years old, going back to the California
> Raisins commercial in the mid 80s.

Proquest has it from 1979, the year that the trademark was first filed:

http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=73218588

The trademark was registered to Will Vinton Studios, which created the
California Raisins commercials. More here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claymation


--Ben Zimmer