LG Parent Seeks Financial Services Trademarks Under Names of 4 Subsidiaries

LG’s corporate parent in Seoul filed a string of trademark applications March 12 in South Korea and the U.S. to protect a range of financial services under the names of four of its key subsidiary companies, Patent and Trademark Office records show. Separate applications were filed seeking trademark registrations for LG Electronics Fund, LG Display Fund, LG Chem Fund and LG Uplus Fund. Besides LG Electronics, which makes and markets home electronics, home appliances and mobile phones, and LG Display, which produces and supplies LCD and OLED panels, LG Chem is the large chemicals company and LG Uplus the South Korean wireless carrier. LG representatives didn’t comment.