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Starbucks to Dumb Starbucks: Don't use our trademark
CNN ^
| February 10, 2014
| Aaron Smith
Posted on 02/10/2014 7:48:04 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
The real Starbucks (SBUX, Fortune 500) isn't happy with the parody coffee shop calling itself Dumb Starbucks that's popped up in Los Angeles, and wants the faux baristas to drop the act.
"We appreciate the humor but they can't use our name," Starbucks spokesman Jim Olson told CNNMoney. "It's a protected trademark. It's our trademark."
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: coffee; starbucks; trademark
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"We appreciate the humor..." It would be more amusing if Nirvana's "Dumb" was played all day considering they were a Seattle-based band.
To: ConservativeStatement
I don’t know what the guy from Starbucks is complaining about.
The two names are pronounced AND spelled differently.
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posted on
02/10/2014 7:53:48 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))
To: ConservativeStatement
The republicans would probably have won the presidency in 2012 if they had simply run a candidate named “Dumbarack Dumbobama”...
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posted on
02/10/2014 7:55:23 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))
To: WayneS
Call it “Dumb Fivebucks”.
Or, use the commonly used “Fivebucks”.
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posted on
02/10/2014 7:58:50 AM PST
by
GladesGuru
(Islam Delenda Est - because of what Islam is and because of what Muslims do.)
To: WayneS
I don’t know what the guy from Starbucks is complaining about.
The two names are pronounced AND spelled differently.
I assume that’s sarcasm, because this is one of the most blatant examples of trademark infringement ever. Also copyright infringement for copying the logo artwork, whether or not used as a trademark.
This is a shameless PR stunt.
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:03:46 AM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
("Income Inequality?" Let's start with Washington DC vs. the rest of the nation!)
To: Atlas Sneezed
Yes. Yes it was.
By the way, the perpetrators of “Dumb Starbucks” used an interesting ploy to try to get around copyright infringement complaints. They claimed their store is a work of “performance art”.
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:08:53 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))
To: Atlas Sneezed
They should be shut down today! If not, what is the point of having laws? Beyond shameless.
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:09:27 AM PST
by
Red in Blue PA
(When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:09:57 AM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
To: GladesGuru
Great idea, that would be funny as hell.
Even “Star FIVE Bucks” This is just going to get people sued (unless of course they turn out to be liberals just having fun, in which case all will be forgotten)
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:10:48 AM PST
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: ConservativeStatement; F15Eagle; JoeProBono
The real Starbucks (SBUX, Fortune 500) isn't happy with the parody coffee shop calling itself Dumb Starbucks that's popped up in Los Angeles, and wants the faux baristas to drop the act. "We appreciate the humor but they can't use our name," Starbucks spokesman Jim Olson told CNNMoney. "It's a protected trademark. It's our trademark."Starbucks To Begin Sinister 'Phase Two' Of Operation
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:11:38 AM PST
by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: ConservativeStatement
See, they're McDonald's... I'm McDowell's. They got the
Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac,
I got the Big Mick....
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:16:59 AM PST
by
Mase
(Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
To: MeshugeMikey
"I'll thank you to hand over *MY* trademark!"
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:17:16 AM PST
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: ConservativeStatement
"Original" Starbucks??? Now just you hold on a minute....
To: shibumi
yeah, well mine incorporated the plural aspect of the name....so there
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:20:15 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
How did that establishment fail to be mentioned in a certain song by Motley Crue?
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:23:02 AM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: Hegewisch Dupa
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:24:20 AM PST
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: ConservativeStatement
I don’t get any coffee there anymore. Starbucks supports Obama and abortion, etc.
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:26:32 AM PST
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Alex Murphy
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:36:53 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
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