Good news for Yamaha fans who also enjoy digging things up in intellectual property databases around the world! Just in time for the holidays, I've got a shiny new wordmark filing for your delectation, and if you're also a small-displacement sportbike fan, then I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that you're extra in luck.
Why? It seems that Yamaha filed paperwork on a new entry in its long-running YZF-R family. Now, as you're likely aware, most members of this family tend to have odd numbers (R1, R3, R7, R9). Sure, the R6 is a much-loved middleweight member of the family, but it's really been doing all the hard work of holding it down in the even numbers department.
Now, though, it's about to be a little less lonely. Maybe. Possibly. It's at this point that I must offer the usual caution about patents and trademarks: That sometimes, companies frequently file to protect their intellectual property whether they actually bring those things to fruition or not.
