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| dmenche914 |
 Apr 7 2005, 11:53 PM
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Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 1,212 Joined: 27-February 03 From: California Member No.: 366  |
I just noticed, the WCC logo has the VW Porsche emblem in it. I know from a while back VW was going bonkers on use of its trademark VW logo, suing or threatening lawsuits unless users (abusers???) paid up. It hit the VW aftermarket industry hard, real horror stories. Companies that even used photos of real VW cars had to delete the logo's from the photos, clubs also were hit, as were websites.
Maybe they have laid off, maybe thay just haven't noticed. I heard also that Porsche was going after trademark infringement also, but not to the degree that VW has, and we got both logos in the WCC logo! Anyone hear of this being a problem? |
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| TC/914 |
Apr 8 2005, 06:36 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 203 Joined: 21-October 04 From: Southern MA Member No.: 2,981 |
It hasn't let up; it just got a little worse.
The second round of cease and desist orders have included the word "Bug" as well. The Bug House, The Rusty Bug, Bug City, and a few others were hit just a little while ago. I see that The Rusty Bug, is now Rusty Restorations (?) and their website is down. I would have thought that, since the PUBLIC gave the name "Bug" to the car as a take-off on the word Beetle name that it might have slipped by. I guess that VW's issuing of The Sun Bug might have sealed the deal on the name, but still . . . kind of too bad that you can lay claim to a word that you didn't make up. It's English, not Volkswagenish. A lot of time and thought went into the current use/spelling/definition of that word, seems a shame that it has to be given up to a corporation. |
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dmenche914 VW logo Apr 7 2005, 11:53 PM
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