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Santa Cruz coffee shop with 'cat' in its name hit with cease and desist from Caterpillar Inc.
SF Chronicle ^
| 5/27/19
| By Kyla Linville
Posted on 05/29/2019 12:07:53 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
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To: NohSpinZone
Are they afraid a coffee shop will be confused with a backhoe? *sheesh* the only hoes I see at the moment are the corporate lawyers at Caterpillar. Mueller
To: Moonman62
"I agree with Caterpillar on this one. They are protesting a trademark registration by the coffee shop. Too bad the Fake News didn’t make that clear in the title and at the start of the article."
Yeah, this company really posed a threat to Caterpillar. /s
To: seawolf101
Dr Seuss’ “Cat in the Hat” will now be retitled “Feline in the Hat”.
To: NohSpinZone
We’ll, I searched Cat & Cloud, and saw a photo of a baseball cap they advertise at $22 a pop. It’s a geeky-looking whimpy POS that a real man wouldn’t wear to a dogfight. OTOH, to MY mind, CAT is bullying. Tell ‘em to go pound sand. That cap or that logo has NO sort of infringement on the tractor company.
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posted on
05/29/2019 1:18:28 PM PDT
by
Tucker39
("It ishttps://y impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
To: Bubba Ho-Tep
"Even if they lose this one in court, they benefit from demonstrating a strong defense of their trademark. Don't blame Caterpillar. Blame trademark law."
Go suck Caterpillar's rear end. They are only making themselves look foolish with this lawsuit. This tiny coffee shop's clothing sideline will not affect Caterpillar in the slightest. They are NOT competing for the same market as Caterpillar and only an idiot or a lawyer would think so.
To: NohSpinZone
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posted on
05/29/2019 1:18:48 PM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Steve_Seattle
How can you trademark protect a common word?
This sounds like a Babylon Bee/Onion article.
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posted on
05/29/2019 1:22:36 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
To: HamiltonJay
The SECOND biggest burger chain in Japan once had their "M" logo in gold. You may guess what happened.
FWIW, this is one of their restaurants in Singapore.
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posted on
05/29/2019 1:23:19 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: redshawk
You make sense.
Lawyer?No, but I work in a business that does licensing and talk to lawyers about these things a lot.
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posted on
05/29/2019 1:26:43 PM PDT
by
Bubba Ho-Tep
("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
To: Moonman62
CAT got great publicity in EASY RIDER.
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posted on
05/29/2019 1:27:10 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
( Three days in FB prison for this...'What was "IT"? A DNA XX or a DNA XY?')
To: Moonman62
CAT got great publicity in EASY RIDER.
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posted on
05/29/2019 1:27:51 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
( Three days in FB prison for this...'What was "IT"? A DNA XX or a DNA XY?')
To: NohSpinZone
"Imstead of being my deliverance/she had a strange resemblance to a CAT named Frankenstein". Would this lyric need to be removed from that Sam Cooke classic? Does this mean
The Stray Cats are also in trouble for copyright infringement?
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posted on
05/29/2019 1:28:23 PM PDT
by
Impala64ssa
(Virtue signalling is no virtue)
To: NohSpinZone
So you can’t use the word ‘caterpillar’ in advertising your product or service? That company should so a search on caterpillar and see how many places use it in their name.
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posted on
05/29/2019 1:32:14 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: NohSpinZone
Caterpillar now makes me think of something that starts with "Bull" and ends with "hit" with a great big "S" in the middle.
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posted on
05/29/2019 1:33:29 PM PDT
by
Waverunner
(I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
To: Fido969
Shoulda changed the radiator hoses...
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posted on
05/29/2019 1:36:24 PM PDT
by
Jagermonster
("God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him." 1 John 4:16, NKJV.)
To: NohSpinZone
That does it. I’m not buying my next backhoe from them.
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posted on
05/29/2019 1:38:03 PM PDT
by
JusPasenThru
(Progressives need to get over their love affair with abortion.)
To: TexasGator
Logo on coffee shop merchandise looks nothing like the Caterpillar logo
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posted on
05/29/2019 1:46:58 PM PDT
by
JerryBlackwell
(some animals are more equal than others)
To: TexasGator
Did you forget the sarcasm tag, from my eye thd logos are not similar at all.
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posted on
05/29/2019 1:50:00 PM PDT
by
rebel25
(GOD, Family, guns, and duck hunting, everything else is just noise.)
To: rebel25
“Did you forget the sarcasm tag, from my eye thd logos are not similar at all.”
My post was not sarcasm but yours seems to be.
To: plain talk
“So no one can use the name “cat” in a business name? Ridiculous.”
There is more to the story but it would not generate so many emotional responses.
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