Friday, March 28, 2008

Post Lunch Trademark Blogging

A federal district court in Georgia has ruled that if you wear or sell a "Walocaust" tshirt no one in their right mind would get confused and think that maybe Wal Mart had decided to go pro-holocaust in their store brand outerwear selection.

Basically some dude started selling shirts that mimiced the Wal-Mart font and said disparaging things such as... oh linking Wal-Mart to the holocaust with "Walocaust" and using the German eagle. Wal-Mart didn't like it, but the court told them basically to go stuff it. Look, getting made fun of, criticized, taunted, etc is just part of being in America, and no one likes a tattle tale, not even when it's the largest single employer in the United States.

I'm going to spare the technical talk and just say that I think this case was rightly decided.

UPDATE: I corrected the link. It now goes where it was intended.

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