[78-L] e: Story of the LP^

[Michael Biel]

Oh yeah?  Try trademarking ANYTHING in the U.S. with the word Olympics
or Olympic in it.  The only company able to do it is Olympic Paint since
they had the trademark long before the U.S. Olympics Committee
trademarked it and they had to pay the paint company off in order for
them to use it.  The U.S.Olympic Committee sells sponsorships which can
be for any product or service, therefore they claim their trademark
covers anything that might conceivably become a sponsor.  The courts
have agreed with them.  We had a case in eastern kentucky recently where
a little store in a little town run by a guy named Victor was
successfully sued by Victoria's Secret because Victor's store was called
"Victor's Little Secret".  Now if we could only get Sony to try to use
the Victor name like that, it might be a fun lawsuit to watch.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [78-L] e: Story of the LP
From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
Date: Mon, November 17, 2008 10:35 pm
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <fnarf at comcast.net>
> It looks lower-case to me, but if you really think capitalization matters 
> on a trademark, you could try marketing a software product called WINdows 
> or winDOWS or WiNdOwS and see how far you get!
>
The interesting thing here is that I get innumerable calls from 
telemarketers trying to
sell me "windows"...no, NOT the software, but the wood & glass devices
which
fill various square holes in my dwelling! So, one CAN sell
"windows"...as 
long as
it/they are NOT a computer operating system...?!

The alternative would be e-mailing a carpenter, with "Can you make me
some
new storm windows (TM Reg'd by Microsoft!)?"

...stevenc