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To: Cboldt

Wait until someone names their company exactly like yours and then claim to be your company. If there weren’t trademark laws then I take the issue into my own hands. Yes, this is going on right now with the company I work for.

I am free market guy and the trademark laws help consumers and prevent scoundrels from profiting on your name.


118 posted on 06/20/2017 10:20:18 PM PDT by Psycho_Runner (Have a good day, unless you have other plans.)
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To: Psycho_Runner
-- I am free market guy and the trademark laws help consumers and prevent scoundrels from profiting on your name. --

I'm fine with trademark. My comment had to do with boundaries on it, and did not advocate eliminating trademark. It pointed out that even if the feds refused to register a mark, that does not kill the mark because common law protection still exists, and state registration isn't cut off.

I'm also fine with the SCOTUS decision - I just think the reason they gave is a pretext for avoiding the question of "offensive," in trademark context.

119 posted on 06/21/2017 4:00:32 AM PDT by Cboldt
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