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Originally Posted by SmoothZ
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) search - cpb.gov
Be careful. The Z logo is a protected trademark. Once you mass produce those for resale w/o permission from the license holder, you're going to open yourself up to at least a Cease and Desist letter. Then you'll find out that someone will take your idea and have the Chinese mass produce it, smuggle it in, sell it, which means they're trafficking in counterfeit goods (among other violations).
While the fact that you have a good idea and can do it with garage tools is great if applying it to your car to make it unique, mass producing it is a whole new ball game.
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I'm not a copyright lawyer by any stretch, but I think they're fine on this since the actual trademark is written to be only the number 370 + Z. Through that search, I don't see any trademark on just the "Z" name. However, since this is so similar to other renditions of the "Z" logo (which are inherently copyrighted), that could pose some issues if Nissan really decided to pursue it.