Editing Standard Oil (section)

==Rights to the name==
[[File:Standardmap.png|thumb|right|300px|This map shows by state which company has the rights to the Standard Oil name. [[ExxonMobil]] has full international rights and continues to use the [[Esso]] name overseas. States that are gray have a dot representing their owners, but are not actively being used; ExxonMobil operates in all these states and have [[de facto]] claimed the trademark.]]
Of the 39 "Baby Standards", 11 were given rights to the Standard Oil name, based on the state they were in. [[Conoco]] and [[Atlantic Petroleum|Atlantic]] elected to use their respective names instead of the Standard name, and their rights would be claimed by other companies.

By the 1980s, most companies were using their brand names instead of the Standard name, with Amoco being the last one to have widespread use of the "Standard" name, as it gave Midwestern owners the option of using the Amoco name or Standard.

Three [[supermajor]] companies now own the rights to the Standard name in the United States: [[ExxonMobil]], [[Chevron Corporation|Chevron Corp.]], and [[BP]]. BP acquired its rights through acquiring [[Standard Oil of Ohio]] and merging with [[Amoco]] and has a small handful of stations in the [[Midwestern United States]] using the Standard name. Likewise, BP continues to sell marine fuel under the Sohio brand at various marinas throughout Ohio. ExxonMobil keeps the [[Esso]] trademark alive at stations that sell [[diesel fuel]] by selling "Esso Diesel" displayed on the pumps.

ExxonMobil has full international rights to the Standard name, and continues to use the Esso name overseas and in Canada.  To protect its trademark, Chevron has one station in each state it owns the rights to be branded as Standard.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Last Standard Oil Company Gas Station in California |url=http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/standard-oil-gas-station |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=Atlas Obscura |language=en}}</ref> Some of its Standard-branded stations have a mix of some signs that say Standard and some signs that say Chevron. Over time, Chevron has changed which station in a given state is the Standard station. As of December 2024 Chevron got a new federal trademark registered for the Standard name for its new electric charging fuel stations.

In February 2016, ExxonMobil successfully asked a U.S. federal court to lift the 1930s trademark injunction that banned it from using the Esso brand in some states. Neither BP nor Chevron objected to the decision. ExxonMobil asked for it to be lifted primarily so it could have universal marketing material for its stations globally and, likewise, the Esso name returned to some minor station signage at both Exxon and Mobil stations.<ref name="CSP">{{cite web |url = http://www.cspdailynews.com/industry-news-analysis/corporate-news/articles/return-esso-gasoline |title = The Return of Esso Gasoline? |date = February 16, 2016 |work = Law360 |access-date = September 18, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.law360.com/articles/740293/after-78-years-exxon-asks-court-to-use-esso-name-again |title = After 78 Years, Exxon Asks Court To Use 'Esso' Name Again |date = December 21, 2015 |work = Law360 |access-date = September 18, 2016 }}</ref>

As of 2021, six states that have the Standard Oil name rights are not being actively used by the companies that own them. Chevron withdrew from [[Kentucky]] (home of the [[Standard Oil of Kentucky]], which Chevron acquired in 1961) in 2010, while BP gradually withdrew from five [[Great Plains]] and [[Rocky Mountain]] states ([[Colorado]], [[Montana]], [[North Dakota]], [[Oklahoma]], and [[Wyoming]]) since the initial conversion of Amoco sites to BP. As ExxonMobil has stations in all of these states, with the aforementioned minor signage ExxonMobil has [[de facto]] claimed the Standard trademark in these states, though they are still held by their respective rights holders.

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File:Standardgasstation.jpg|One of 15 Chevron stations branded as "Standard" to protect Chevron's trademark; this one is in [[Paradise, Nevada]].
File:Esso Diesel.jpg|A combination gasoline/diesel pump at an Exxon in [[Zelienople, Pennsylvania]] selling Exxon gasoline and "Esso Diesel".
Image:bpstandarddurand.jpg|BP station with "torch and oval" Standard sign in [[Durand, Michigan]].
Image:Sohio anderson ferry marina.jpg|BP continues to sell marine fuel under the Sohio brand at various marinas on Ohio waterways and in Ohio state parks in order to protect its rights in the Sohio and Standard Oil names. The Anderson Ferry Marina near [[Cincinnati, Ohio]] is pictured.
File:EssoOhio.jpg|Station signage at an Exxon station in [[Columbus, Ohio]] featuring the Esso logo, while BP owns the rights to the Standard Oil name in [[Ohio]].
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