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What about "Olympics"
Authored by: Wol on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 10:51 AM EDT
What "one and only"?

And enforcing your trademark is not that good an idea in these sort of
circumstances ... it's left a VERY sour taste in very many mouths here in London
and south-east England. I personally was involved in a couple of abortive
initiatives to take advantage of the Olympics.

There was a lot of encouragement to take advantage of the Olympics but they set
up so many rules ... I think pretty much all the events I know of that planned
to use the Olympics as a major marketing feature just didn't happen, and those
which were going ahead anyway just got rid of any and all references to the
Olympics. And they said they wanted people to do things!

And down on the South Coast they even banned fish-n-chips! The only company
officially allowed to sell chips doesn't even know what an English Chip looks
like!!!

Cheers,
Wol

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What about "Olympics"
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 12:42 PM EDT
Actually the SCUM of the Olympics committee destroyed a fun the social site
Ravelry which organized the "Ravolympics" to coincide wherein the
participants chose one or more project to complete during the Olympics and
posting progress pics over the duration.

They still do it but have had to change the name thanks to some petty
superiority complexes of a few morons with more power than decency!

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What about "Olympics"
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 04:01 PM EDT
I have heard that the Olympics have some special laws that give the official
organization extra powers beyond the reach of normal trademark holders.

This particular comparison will not help to shed light on other disputes.

sorry no clicky:

http://www.inta.org/TrademarkBasics/FactSheets/Pages/ProtectionofOlympicTrademar
ks.aspx

--

Bondfire

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What about "Olympics"
Authored by: mschmitz on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 04:04 PM EDT
Careful about the band name idea, PJ - these guys have trademarked the use of
'Hackathon' in that field of use just as much, or even more than in the generic
sense. The 'event' business is what they are after. Typical Berlin style
startup, IMNSHO. That's as far as I can go without violating GL rules on
etiquette.

-- mschmitz

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What about "Olympics"
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 11:57 PM EDT
When the Olympics were held in Vancouver, British Columbia, a number of
businesses on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State were hit with
"cease and desist" notices because of alleged trademark infringement.

(TV stations in Victoria BC and Vancouver BC are more popular than
Seattle WA TV stations.)

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"ToysRUs" closed down my favourite small business of all time
Authored by: halfhuman on Wednesday, May 15 2013 @ 02:27 AM EDT
I hate to disagree with PJ, but abuse does happen, and it is due to defects in
trademark law similar to the asymmetries in patent law: the big players do bully
the little ones.

Where I used to live (Observatory, Cape Town) there was once a lovely little
shop supplying the equivalent of home-cooked suppers at a very decent price.
Fresh, nutritious, cheap and (more or less) tasty. They called themselves
StewsRUs, with the cute reversed R of ToysRUs.

Lawsuit from the toy retailers, who set up in Cape Town just before or just
after the stew shop, who couldn't afford lawyers/didn't want a long legal
battle, and closed.

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