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=== Airlines === [[American Airlines]] obtained copyright to the term "Flagship" on May 3, 1937, per the Catalog of Copyright Entries.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B7RaAAAAIAAJ&q=year+american+airlines+obtained+copyright+for+flagship&pg=PA434|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [B] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series|date=1938|language=en}}</ref> As of December 20, 2019 as stated in a legal document, this includes "the marks "Flagship," "Flagship Lounge" and "Flagship Suite" (the "Flagship Marks")βto describe premium air travel services for first and business class passengers since the 1930s and 1940s."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/AmericanAirlinesIncvDeltaAirLinesIncDocketNo419cv01053NDTexDec202?1577878975|title=American Airlines Inc v. Delta Air Lines Inc|website=www.bloomberglaw.com|access-date=2020-01-01|archive-date=1 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101141247/https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/AmericanAirlinesIncvDeltaAirLinesIncDocketNo419cv01053NDTexDec202%3F1577878975|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.americanairlinesnavigator.com/?lang=en-us|title=American Airlines|website=www.americanairlinesnavigator.com|access-date=2020-01-01}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> [[Delta Air Lines]] also uses/used the word "Flagship" to describe its top lines, as pointed out by AA and being argued legally in December 2019 and into 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uspatentlaw.cn/en/airlines-battle-over-the-trademark-flagship-american-v-delta/|title=Airlines battle over the trademark FLAGSHIP. AMERICAN v. DELTA β uspatentlaw.cn|date=27 December 2019|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-01|archive-date=9 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609151240/http://uspatentlaw.cn/en/airlines-battle-over-the-trademark-flagship-american-v-delta/|url-status=live}}</ref>
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