ZIPPO was founded in the U.S. in 1932 and has used the trademark ZIPPO continuously since that date. ZMC has actively sold ZIPPO brand lighters and other trademarked products in the USA and in over 160 countries for many years and continues to sell these products in the USA and worldwide. The Zippo windproof lighter has been described as a design icon of the Twentieth Century; and the ZIPPO trademark is regarded as one of the world's famous marks.
