[Mccoypottery-talk] trademark

[ABSKI]

Would Billie McCoy be the single applicant?  And if we can't contribute to a
group, could we contribute to her?

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From: <mccoy@mccoypottery.com>
To: <mccoypottery-talk@lists.mccoypottery.com>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Mccoypottery-talk] trademark


>
> Hello:
> Once again the trademark requires a single applicant. A group by the rules
> defeats the purpose of ownership. A group can not own or register the
> trademark. Taking donations to do so goes against the rule also. Who is
> the applicant, and who would pay the legal costs to establish the
> organization that does interstate commerce with the mark on the product
> and the advertising, and the containers it is packaged in.  Does this
> start to make sense about why the registering of a mark is made not so
> easy as putting down a few hundred dollars. The us patent and trademark
> office is very exact about this and takes very serious that the
> registration is for commercial use so as not to allow someone to protect
> the mark from others using a mark and keeping it from being used by others
> just to keep the fayes and jensens of the ebay world from doing so.
> Cheers!  Terry
>
> > I can't contribute to legal discussions about patent or trademark laws.
I
> > can't put Jensen out of business.  But if someone on this list
> > could............  YES!  I would donate money!!  How many people on this
> > list??  How many would donate time or research or money or knowledge???
> > Maybe I am being Pollyanna about the whole situation.  But why don't we
do
> > something?
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: McQuita@aol.com
> >   To: mccoypottery-talk@lists.mccoypottery.com
> >   Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 10:58 AM
> >   Subject: Re: [Mccoypottery-talk] trademark
> >
> >
> >   Do you have any idea what would be involved with this type of
> > undertaking...the expense...?
> >
> >
>
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