Comments on: West Point Sues Anti-War Grads

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Mon, 08 May 2006 17:57:43 +0000

I'm not up on the case law, but from what I remember, if there is a reasonable chance of confusion with the trademark holder (whom I will assume is the USMA), they should win. The key issue to me is if they can show other "west point alum" organisations using the name without licensing. I suspect that the "west point" trademark has limitations restricting it to some connection to the USMA (as opposed to a geographical feature). Just thinking about this I could imagine some other trademark cases (assuming they have the trademark) for "Democrat's for the subjugation of America to Islamic Terrorist" or "Republicans for the rounding up and killing of anyone not like us". Could the party's sue in such a case?

By: Zelsdorf Ragshaft III

Zelsdorf Ragshaft III — Sat, 06 May 2006 15:56:19 +0000

I would like to see these warriors try to prove their claim that someone lied, cheated or stole to get us into the Iraq war. Those cowards have believed the lies of a negitive press. In which other conflict of this size has the U.S. experience a .2% casualty rate? Certainly not Viet Nam.

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 06 May 2006 13:12:48 +0000

AFAIK, the leading case on this issue is Playboy v. Wells. Wells, a former Playboy Playmate of the Month, was sued for trademark infrigment. The Court decided that Welles's use of the words "playboy" and "playmate" were a "fair use" of Playboy's trademarks because they fairly described and identified her achievements, and Playboy had failed to introduce compelling evidence of actual consumer confusion over the arms-length relationship between Welles's site and Playboy.

http://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/cyber/cyberlaw/17law.html

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Spam filter software guide — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

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