Re: [CH] Re: Evil corporate types
Tina Brooks (shoestring_louise@yahoo.com)
Mon, 2 Jun 2008 18:41:39 -0700 (PDT)
The fact that they were stripped of their trademark tells me that the restaurant won the lawsuit...
Regardless of that fact, I think Jim calling Mr. McIlhenny trumps some woman on the other side of the oceans' website.
It was just something I read, I don't care to defend it.
anyone else care to rip a strip off me?
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Tina Brooks
VP Marketing, Peppermaster Hot Sauces <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.peppermaster.com">www.peppermaster.com
</a>Brooks Pepperfire Foods Inc. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.pepperfire.ca">www.pepperfire.ca</a>
Phone: (514) 393-3430
26 St. Jean Baptiste, East
Rigaud, Quebec, Canada
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----- Original Message ----
From: Craig S. Thom <craigthom@gmail.com>
To: Tina Brooks <shoestring_louise@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, June 2, 2008 9:29:08 PM
Subject: Re: [CH] Re: Evil corporate types
There's nothing on that Austrian site about the difference between a
hot sauce and a restaurant. That's about voiding the trademark on the
world all together.
Since that's been going on for decades, I think most people here were
referring to the more recent case in Iowa. News of that suit was
posted all over, but nothing else was.
Three years ago there was a restaurant named Tabasco's Restaurant and
Patio. The address was 433 7th Avenue in Marion, Iowa.
Today there is a restaurant named Villa's Patio Mexican Restaurant.
It is as 433 7th Avenue in Marion, Iowa.
The phone number has changed, so it's possible that Tabasco's won the
right to continue using the name but failed to stay in business. I
hope, though, that's it's the same person, given the horrible use of
the apostrophe in both names.
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Tina Brooks <shoestring_louise@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Not sure why I might think the restaurant won... http://www.tabascochili-war.com/english/index.php
>
> I'm pretty sure that Ms. Pucher believes they won.
>
> As
> for whether or not I spent a great deal of money on my trademarks... I
> have spent an exhorbitant amount of money on Pepperfire, and you well
> know it. I didn't spend it fighting to own the trademark. I own it and
> if the guy who the Trademarks office says owns it, wants to sue us,
> we'll fight him in court... without a lawyer and we'll win.
>
> With
> all my trademarks experience over the past five years, the FIRST thing
> I would tell anyone in the food business who is asking whether or not
> they should register their mark, is that unless they are willing to
> fight to the death to KEEP their mark, not to bother, it's a waste of
> money and the rules of first use will win EVEN if you already own the
> mark.
>
> T
>
>
> =====
>
>
> Tina Brooks
> VP Marketing, Peppermaster Hot Sauces <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.peppermaster.com">www.peppermaster.com
> </a>Brooks Pepperfire Foods Inc. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.pepperfire.ca">www.pepperfire.ca</a>
>
>
> Phone: (514) 393-3430
> 26 St. Jean Baptiste, East
> Rigaud, Quebec, Canada
> J0P 1P0
>
>
> Network with me on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.gourmetbusinessforum.com/">www.gourmetbusinessforum.com</a> -- The premier online business community for food professionals
>
>
> <em><font
> color="#ff0000">Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes
> true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but
> through fidelity to a worthy purpose.</font> <font
> color="#4040ff">Helen Keller</font></em>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "jim@wildpepper.com" <jim@wildpepper.com>
> To: Tina Brooks <shoestring_louise@yahoo.com>
> Cc: chile-heads <chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 2, 2008 8:18:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [CH] Re: Evil corporate types
>
> 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
> http://www.StepUpforCharity.org
>
>
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