Comments on: Tribe: don’t put Navajo name on products without a license https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/02/tribe-dont-put-navajo-name-on-products-without-a-license/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 14 Feb 2016 21:55:59 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bill H https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/02/tribe-dont-put-navajo-name-on-products-without-a-license/comment-page-1/#comment-333179 Sun, 14 Feb 2016 21:55:59 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=57622#comment-333179 In reply to Maurice Tate.

That’s what Indian casinos are for.

]]> By: ras https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/02/tribe-dont-put-navajo-name-on-products-without-a-license/comment-page-1/#comment-333145 Sat, 13 Feb 2016 22:42:45 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=57622#comment-333145 The Chicago Blackhawks are gonna need new uniforms.

]]> By: Bill H https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/02/tribe-dont-put-navajo-name-on-products-without-a-license/comment-page-1/#comment-333140 Sat, 13 Feb 2016 20:06:35 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=57622#comment-333140 IANAL, but it would seem to me that since the descriptive “Navajo” is in relatively common use, wouldn’t the tribe have lost the right to sue under what I’m assuming would be trademark law?

]]> By: Maurice Tate https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/02/tribe-dont-put-navajo-name-on-products-without-a-license/comment-page-1/#comment-333133 Sat, 13 Feb 2016 17:32:28 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=57622#comment-333133 Good. They need the money. Suing the EPA ain’t cheap.

]]> By: LTMG https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/02/tribe-dont-put-navajo-name-on-products-without-a-license/comment-page-1/#comment-333131 Sat, 13 Feb 2016 16:29:28 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=57622#comment-333131 Watch out Chinese Restaurant, Danish Pastry, German Chocolate Cake, “Japanned”, Icelandic Spar, and many thousands more expressions easily attached to items or services for sale.

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