A copyright matter
Now this is droll... From the
Seattle Times:
Newspaper trademark bid challenged by U.S. Olympic Committee
The U.S. Olympic Committee is protesting an effort by the parent company of The Olympian to trademark the newspaper's name.
The McClatchy Co. submitted its application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in October 2006, shortly after it bought Knight-Ridder, the newspaper's former owner.
Lawyers representing the committee argue that the similarity in appearance and sound of its trademarks to The Olympian "tends to cause confusion or mistake, to deceive, and to falsely suggest a connection."
Such a similarity threatens the committee's "relationships with its licensees, its partners and its sponsors, and thereby, its main source of revenue to support U.S. athletes," according to the 12-page notice of opposition filed with the federal agency's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
The Olympian is published in the
State capital, Olympia, WA
Talk about a bunch of lawyered-up morons...
Posted by DaveH at October 6, 2009 12:51 PM