“Mount Washington Hotel to businesses: Stop using mountain’s name”

“A state lawmaker tells WMWV-FM that the Mount Washington Hotel and Resort has told other businesses with ‘Mount Washington’ in their name to stop using it or face a legal challenge.” The hotel says it has challenged only three lodging businesses and does not intend to go after other local businesses named after the mountain. [AP, WMUR, Boston Globe]

P.S. Commenter Mannie: “It gets better. The IOC routinely harasses businesses on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula for using the name ‘Olympic.'”

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  • In other news, the New York Times has informed the New York Post and New York Daily News to cease using ‘New York’ in their name or face a legal challenge.

  • It gets better. The IOC routinely harasses businesses on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula for using the name “Olympic.”

  • Here in Canada, the IOC was not content with existing trademark law and got the government to pass a special super-trademark law just for it!