ORDNANCE SURVEY
Ordnance Survey has been registered in the UK for maps and printed cartographic materials since the organisation's founding in 1791. Originally created by the Board of Ordnance to map Scotland following the Jacobite risings, the OS became Britain's national mapping agency.
UK IPO Record
- Application Number
- UK00003086709
- Word Mark
- ORDNANCE SURVEY
- Status
- Registered
- Applied
- 18 December 2014
- Registered
- 18 September 2015
- Next Renewal
- 18 December 2034
- Owner
- Ordnance Survey Limited
- Nice Classes
- Class 9, Class 14, Class 16, Class 18, Class 20, Class 21, Class 22, Class 25, Class 28, Class 35, Class 38, Class 39, Class 41, Class 42, Class 43
Brand History & Trademark Analysis
Ordnance Survey has been registered in the UK for maps and printed cartographic materials since the organisation's founding in 1791. Originally created by the Board of Ordnance to map Scotland following the Jacobite risings, the OS became Britain's national mapping agency. Its distinctive orange-covered Explorer maps are a staple of British outdoor culture, and the trademark covers both printed and digital mapping products.
Its distinctive orange-covered Explorer maps are a staple of British outdoor culture, and the trademark covers both printed and digital mapping products.
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Historical Background
Ordnance Survey was established in 1791 following the Jacobite rising of 1745, when the lack of accurate military maps across Scotland was identified as a strategic vulnerability. The first OS map was published in 1801, covering Kent. OS became a government trading fund in 1999 and a public corporation in 2015. The one-inch-to-one-mile scale, introduced in 1801, remained a defining feature of OS mapping until metrication in the 1970s.