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• Regens Lighter Corporation operated in the United states from 1934 until 1955 (Le Briquet Automatique)
• Rudolph Buchmann, Alois Kaufmann, and Franz Balek of Vienna were owners of Regens Lighter Corp. prior to September 14, 1944
• In 1944, all property within the United States of Buchmann, Kaufmann, and Balek was seized under the U.S. "Trading With The Enemy Act" (Federal Register)
• A trademark application for 'Regens' was filed in 1948 by Mathew F. Raftree, President of Regens Lighter Corp.
• The Raftree trademark application was accepted in 1950; it states the Regens trademark was first used in August 1936