Posted on 05/18/2010 6:58:04 AM PDT by Thurston_Howell_III
The Coney Island Drive Inn, a restaurant in Brooksville, Florida, has been selling 12-inch hotdogs — the restaurant calls them “footlongs” — for more than 40 years. Its Web site is gotfootlongs.com.
Last week, the restaurant got a letter from a lawyer representing Subway, which, as you may have heard, sells 12-inch sandwiches for five bucks.
After explaining that Subway “has applied for the trademark FOOTLONG (TM) in association with sandwiches,” the letter says:
You are hereby put on notice to cease and desist from using FOOTLONG (TM) in association with sandwiches. You must immediately remove all references to FOOTLONG (TM) in association with sandwiches.
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My Name is Earl?
Ha. Absolutely!
Darn I I called dibs on ‘The’ but I accidently posted in on a thread about unemployed pastors.
darn.
I guess I’ll trademark.... ‘trademark’
Their meatball isn’t so bad.
The problem is, the sandwiches we make at home are just as good.
Oh, now you’ve gone and done it!
Please forward your name, address, phone number, your mother’s maiden name, your first dog’s name, birth date and social security number.
There's a word that should be used much more often.
Asinine! I like Subway, but I can just as easily get good FOOTLONG subs from somewhere else, and will do so if they persist with this. I hope its laughed out of court!
Hustler Trying To Trademark “Footlong”, sending cease and desist letters to local Porno shops
LOL! Oh how I wish we could pay lawyers in that manner.
Nice rack.... ;^)
Reminds me of Microsoft and “Windows”
The first Subway that opened in town gave everyone who ate there a communicable disease (not me by the way)...... by someone with open sores working there. I cannot get that out of my mind and have never eaten a Subway since, at least 15 years. Now I have had many “footlong” hot dogs over the years and I intend to eat many more and call them FOOTLONG as I do so. Hey Subway - FOOTLONG
That’s just stupid. I have been eating a foot long hot dog and sandwiches long before I ever heard of Subway.
Someone at Subway needs to learn how trademarks work... If it’s already used by someone else before you apply for a trademark, that other person gets to keep using it. Even if the USPTO grants it to you.
Idiots...
Reminds me of when Sun Microsystems briefly issued cease and desist letters to various coffee shops using the term “Java”. Man, talk about hoots and hollers of derision from legions of techies! Several suggested that Sun Microsystems needed to go after the country of Java and order then to rename their country. Others suggested Sun make everyone stop using the word “Sun” to describe the fiery ball in the sky.
After that, the whole thing sort of just disappeared. Funny thing about that, hey?
At any rate, clearly Sun had way too many lawyers on the payroll. As they say, “Idle lawyers do the Devil’s work.”
And politicians too!
[Yes, I know. They're usually the same thing]
ROFL!
and here I was being nice NOT asking why you had a trademark on the word 'inchworm' in the first place.
Clerical error. ROFL.
Which one of us hasn't experienced that embarrassing typo moment that inadvertently threatens a lawsuit by mistake? Could happen to anyone.
“and here I was being nice NOT asking why you had a trademark on the word ‘inchworm’ in the first place.”
Hey, I was referring to the pic you posted, I can’t imagine what you’re thinking ;^)
...and you just used ‘inchworm’ (TM) again (cha-chink!). This trademark scam could be a tidy little earner. :-)
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