Comments on: The Big Game

By: Super Bowl Time

Super Bowl Time — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:16:37 +0000

[…] means, for the NFL, aggressive deployment of trademark lawyers time. Earlier here, here, here, here, here, here, and […]

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:59:51 +0000

Maybe the NFL should dress the referees like lawyers, in three-piece suits, and have them throw subpoenas, rather than penalty flags, for on-field infractions.

By: Deoxy

Deoxy — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:04:46 +0000

Found this recently, too... http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070201/LOCAL/702010431/ Sportsbars can show "the big game" for their guests, but not churches... anybody care to make sense of that? Other than that churches are seen as punching bags, I mean.

By: Colin P. Varga

Colin P. Varga — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:31:46 +0000

I represent all zebras living and/or dead and I am suing the NFL over it’s use of “black” and “white” stripes. It has taken millions of years for my clients to develope this uniform and they will not stand idly by while a corporation shows no regard for their innovation and hard work in evolving. Evolution doesn’t just happen.

By: LAN3

LAN3 — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:46:43 +0000

Yeah, then the NFL will start running down hunting lodges, guides, etc. because of their mis-use of “Big Game.”

I’ve heard about how, when the Olympic Games come to town, their lawyers start in on businesses that trade on the name Olympic (or like) because they could capitalize on the association with the games’ brand. Though I would thoroughly dread (and strongly consider evacuation during) any arrival of the Olympic Games in Seattle where I currently reside, I’ve idly wondered how successful they could be with those tactics, as Seattle is just a few miles across the water from the Olympic Peninsula, a mountainous landmass dominated by the lovely Mt. Olympus. As a result, there are thousands of businesses with Olympic in their name, all over the area; everything from apartment buildings to restaurants, and the whole length and breadth of the sports market, from supplies to trophies to cheap beer. (Cheap beer is sports-related, right?)

Anyway, I suspect any attempts at brand bullying could meet some resistance in our state’s capital city, Olympia.

By: Deoxy

Deoxy — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:26:01 +0000

Laaaaaaaame.

Next, they’ve TM “the Big Game”. It’s so stupid.

By: jb

jb — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:52:15 +0000

Viral marketing, people. Was it on Overlawyered that I read last year about, I think it was Universal Studios who sued their own viral marketers? [Yes. -- TF]