Re: [CH] Re: Evil corporate types
jim@wildpepper.com
Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:18:50 -0400
Again ma'am, you are not even close to being factually correct.
Repeating it doesn't make it so :-)
There was no "lawsuit" as in a 'court hearing'; there were a series of
letters from attourneys and it was settled out LONG before it got to any
court. The restaraunt was clearly stepping on the established trademark
as any high school law fan could see. Heck, it'd probably only take a
couple of episodes of Boston Legal to get to that degree fo competance
:-) They changed their name- doesn't sound like 'they won' to me ;-)
It is totally irrelevant that it was a "restaraunt" vs a "hot sauce" as
Tabasco holds trademarks in BOTH categories, as well as several others.
They operate a Tabasco Deli which clearly falls into the 'food service'
category.
That argument- that it's a place name, not a sauce- holds about as much
weight as if I'd come out with a line of "Campbell's Soup Kitchens" and
try to claim that I'm simply using my name. I don't think that would
fly either ;-)
-Jim
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