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GM Abandons Efforts To Trademark ‘Sport Control AWD’

General Motors has abandoned efforts to register “Sport Control AWD” as a trademark with the USPTO, GM Authority has discovered.

GM originally filed its application to register the term on September 20th, 2018. The application listed the following use cases for the filing:

  • All-wheel drive systems and electronic stability control systems for vehicles
  • Steering systems for vehicles
  • Traction control systems for vehicles
  • Suspension systems for vehicles
  • Braking systems for vehicles
  • Vehicles
  • Apparatus for locomotion by land, air or water; parts, fittings and components thereof

That trademark application, assigned serial number 88125283, was abandoned on June 19th, 2019. GM has not filed another trademark application for the term, or any other AWD-related trademarks.

GM Sport Control AWD Trademark Filing

The GM Authority Take

GM’s decision to abandon the Sport Control AWD trademark application shows that the Detroit-based automaker has changed direction on whatever technology or feature the initial trademark was meant for. It’s unclear what the change represents, but we are aware of two possibilities.

AWD logo on 2017 Cadillac XT5 at the 2015 LA Auto Show

The first is that abandoning the trademark application represent a branding-level adjustment. In other words, whatever all-wheel-drive system the Sport Control AWD brand would represent will have a different name. The second possibility is that the actual product that the Sport Control AWD name was planned to represent has been canceled, and will no longer see the light of day.

That’s all we know for now, but we’ll update you as soon as we learn more. In the meantime, be sure to subscribe to GM Authority for the latest future GM product news, GM trademark news, GM legal news and ongoing GM news coverage.

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Comments

  1. Seems like we would see Camaro gets AWD version in future. Electric AWD is mainstream for every future performance car now.

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  2. It would be on the next gen if it is added. That is if GM continues to work for a next gen with it on hold and TBD.

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  3. Just more money spent on, branding, badging, and marketing !!

    Is there a new product attached, well !!

    Wait, and Wait, and Wait, and Wait, and Wait, it will be great you just Wait !!!!

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  4. Sounds like a feature the C8 would get eventually.

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