A gear seller says it got a stern letter from an IOC lawyer against even mentioning a famous Olympian who has used its wares [UVEXSports]
Posts Tagged ‘trademarks’
High school agrees to halt Chrysler Rams logo use
Lake Mary High School concedes it has no legal grounds on which to resist Chrysler’s request. Contrary to many readers’ suggestions, the automaker did not agree to license the logo’s use on cordial terms. To quote the Orlando Sentinel account:
“As I am sure you can appreciate from your years of work with the board, control of use of a mark by enthusiastic students and parents is quite simply not practical, and I know the school and board would not want to be in the position of censoring student expression associated with the design,” wrote Judith Powell, an attorney for Chrysler.
(& welcome The Truth About Cars readers)
Before doom struck
Patrons of the Taipei pastry shop were entirely unsuspecting of the horde of trademark lawyers about to descend. [via John Mesirow, Legal Juice]
Florida school team swipes Chrysler’s “Rams” logo
And lawyering ensues [Sun-Sentinel, Orlando Sentinel]
P.S. Commenter VMS: “Sometimes corporations need to use their marketing brains rather than their legal muscle…. If Walter Chrysler were still around, he would have instructed his lawyers to license the mark to the team at minimal cost.”
Update: High school yields and a Chrysler lawyer explains the company’s rationale for not doing a license.
“Heart Attack restaurant owner sues Heart Stoppers owner over theme”
Trademark case drags on after nearly 25 years
TTABlog reports on the oldest pending case before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
UT hassling Longhorn users
IP lawyers for the University of Texas are busy creatures, according to Eric Johnson:
A couple years ago, they sued an outfit making t-shirts, sold to fans of rival Texas A&M, that depicted a broken Longhorns logo with the taunt, “Saw ’em off.” (Fellow UT alum Siva Vaidhyanathan’s take is here.)
And I remember when I was going to school at UT, in the early 1990s, the university was hassling local business with “Longhorn” in their names. Since then, UT has been very aggressive about trademark issues.
Yet all this activity has not really been as much of a profit center as you might think: the cost of running the IP program, Johnson calculates, may eat up something on the order of half the $800,000 in annual royalties brought in (via Ron Coleman).
NFL enforcement of “Super Bowl” trademark
Every year it seems to get worse, or better, depending on your perspective, notes Ron Coleman. Earlier years here, here, here, etc., as well as “Who Dat?”
January 30 roundup
- Attention journalists: a trademark opposition and a trademark lawsuit are two different things [Legal Satyricon]
- I explain (slightly rudely) why I think the Citizens United decision will probably help the Dems this cycle [National Journal blogger poll] Plus: no big effect on campaigns? [Ann Althouse] And it’s not as if Chuck Schumer has made up his mind or anything: he’s titled his hearing on Citizens United next week “Corporate America vs. the Voter” [PoL, yet more here and here]
- Olson and Boies should realize these are not the days of the Warren Court [Dale Carpenter, Independent Gay Forum]
- Motorists beware Tenaha, Texas: the legal sequel [WSJ Law Blog, earlier here, etc.]
- “Detroit Lawyer Fined For Chasing Buffalo Air Crash Victims” [Turkewitz]
- Symbolic venue? Administration chooses to unveil new press-lenders-to-serve-minorities campaign at Jesse Jackson event [N.Y.Times]
- Remembering pinball prohibition [Popular Mechanics back in August, Radley Balko]
- Judge cuts “shocking”, “monstrous” $2 million award to $54,000 in Jammie Thomas-Rasset music-download suit [AmLaw Litigation Daily, earlier] Naughty librarians: “Offline Book ‘Lending’ Costs US Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion” [Eric Hellman]
NFL trademark lawyers vs. New Orleans t-shirt sellers
Unauthorized use of “Who Dat?” and a fleur-de-lis. [Peter Finney, Times-Picayune/NOLA] More: and a cartoon.