In the comments section to the article someone wrote: "Subway lawyers have also sent a cease-and-desist letter to the MTA. The MTA must now refer to that thing underneath the streets of New York as an “Underground Railroad.”
Subway is ok in a pinch...But because of the idiocy of this idea...Quiznos will get my business.
The porn industry might have something to say about this.
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
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.”
My response would have been a terse “BLOWME (TM).”
Subway should be ordered to cease and desist calling what it serves “food”.