Lon Stowell

Roughly 12/17/03 19:59, Nathan Collier's monkeys randomly typed:

> "Lon Stowell" <LonDot.Stowell@ComcastPeriod.Net> wrote in message
> news:Lt9Eb.580278$Tr4.1557910@attbi_s03...
>> Too bad you can't sue them for infringement on your original
>> idea....
>
> heh......indeed!
>
And here I thought you did slap an injunction on them for
displaying nekkid babes and Jeeps... the morning paper has
a front page blurb that Chrysler has pulled their sponsorhip.


--
Fan of the dumbest team in America.

Lon Stowell

Roughly 12/17/03 19:59, Nathan Collier's monkeys randomly typed:

> "Lon Stowell" <LonDot.Stowell@ComcastPeriod.Net> wrote in message
> news:Lt9Eb.580278$Tr4.1557910@attbi_s03...
>> Too bad you can't sue them for infringement on your original
>> idea....
>
> heh......indeed!
>
And here I thought you did slap an injunction on them for
displaying nekkid babes and Jeeps... the morning paper has
a front page blurb that Chrysler has pulled their sponsorhip.


--
Fan of the dumbest team in America.

Matt Macchiarolo

The game will still go on. Will probably play on a rainy day, about 65
degrees, on a field that was just planted with grass seed the week before.

;-)

>
>> "Lon Stowell" <LonDot.Stowell@ComcastPeriod.Net> wrote in message
>> news:Lt9Eb.580278$Tr4.1557910@attbi_s03...
>>> Too bad you can't sue them for infringement on your original
>>> idea....
>>
>> heh......indeed!
>>
> And here I thought you did slap an injunction on them for
> displaying nekkid babes and Jeeps... the morning paper has
> a front page blurb that Chrysler has pulled their sponsorhip.


* * *
Matt Macchiarolo
www.townpeddler.com
www.wolverine4wd.org
http://wolverine4wd.org/rigs/macchiarolo_ml.html

Matt Macchiarolo

The game will still go on. Will probably play on a rainy day, about 65
degrees, on a field that was just planted with grass seed the week before.

;-)

>
>> "Lon Stowell" <LonDot.Stowell@ComcastPeriod.Net> wrote in message
>> news:Lt9Eb.580278$Tr4.1557910@attbi_s03...
>>> Too bad you can't sue them for infringement on your original
>>> idea....
>>
>> heh......indeed!
>>
> And here I thought you did slap an injunction on them for
> displaying nekkid babes and Jeeps... the morning paper has
> a front page blurb that Chrysler has pulled their sponsorhip.


* * *
Matt Macchiarolo
www.townpeddler.com
www.wolverine4wd.org
http://wolverine4wd.org/rigs/macchiarolo_ml.html

Matt Macchiarolo

The game will still go on. Will probably play on a rainy day, about 65
degrees, on a field that was just planted with grass seed the week before.

;-)

>
>> "Lon Stowell" <LonDot.Stowell@ComcastPeriod.Net> wrote in message
>> news:Lt9Eb.580278$Tr4.1557910@attbi_s03...
>>> Too bad you can't sue them for infringement on your original
>>> idea....
>>
>> heh......indeed!
>>
> And here I thought you did slap an injunction on them for
> displaying nekkid babes and Jeeps... the morning paper has
> a front page blurb that Chrysler has pulled their sponsorhip.


* * *
Matt Macchiarolo
www.townpeddler.com
www.wolverine4wd.org
http://wolverine4wd.org/rigs/macchiarolo_ml.html

jbjeep

>>http://tinyurl.com/xpbp

Hey Nathan, thought you might find this mildly amusing...


Cheese company, Bandonites, lock horns over name

The Associated Press 12/18/2003, 1:00 a.m. PT

BANDON, Ore. (AP) - Bandon's Kettle Korn By the Sea does not make cheese. The Bandon
Cheese Co. does, but not in Bandon. David Nevitt, who makes his kettle corn out of
his house outside this south coastal town, sells it in the Bandon Cheese Co. store.
But a few weeks back he got a letter from the cheese people saying they had
trademarked the name.

"What are they going to do, sue everybody in the phone book who has the word 'Bandon'
in their name?" Nevitt wondered.

Bandon Cheese marketing director Kathy Holstad sent a letter to Larry Stotts, of
Bandon Coastal Ventures (who lives in the high desert town of Sisters and doesn't
make cheese either) and to several other companies. The local phone book lists more
than 60 Bandon this-or-thats, from a Quick Mart to a septic company. They don't make
cheese, either. The city fathers of Bandon, which was named after a 400-year-old
town in Ireland, not after the cheese, are taking this all very seriously and hiring
a trademark lawyer. The issue could have international ramifications," wrote City
Manager Matt Winkel to the company, which is owned by the Tillamook County Creamery
Association a couple of hundred miles to the north, and which makes a lot of cheese.

Holstad wrote that consumers get confused by multiple goods and services offered
under one name.

City Councilor Geri Procetto finds all this a bit strange. "If you go into Bandon
True Value, you're not going to ask for cheese," she quipped.

That's a good thing. They don't sell it.

"If we have to trademark our city, we'll trademark our city," she said. It seems the
Tillamook County Creamery Association bought Bandon Cheese in 2000 and registered two
trademarks, the words "Bandon" or "Bandon's" and the Coquille River Lighthouse. Then
the company closed its Bandon plant and now makes cheese in Tillamook and in Boardman
in Eastern Oregon.

The Bandon plant, founded in the 1920s, is just a retail store.

Attorney Robert Miller says there now is the issue of calling it Bandon Cheese at all
when it isn't made within hundreds of miles of the place. State law forbids labeling
that "uses deceptive representations or designations of geographic origin in
connection with real estate, goods or services."

Bandon wants Coos County District Attorney Paul Burgett to consider suing on behalf
of consumers, who may have thought they were buying cheese made in Bandon.

Company officials say they are not called "Bandon Cheese" any longer. The term
'Bandon Cheese' refers to a brand of cheese. It's now produced by the company's
artisan cheesemakers, using the Bandon recipe, the company said.

In April the company changed its name to Oregon Coast Foods although the label still
reads "Bandon," the store advertises the cheese as "hand-cheddared in Bandon since
1900," and the letters sent to area businesses came from "Bandon Cheese."

For now, the company says it only wants Nevitt to change the name of his kettle korn
and isn't concerned with product confusion with the hardware store or the septic
people.

Nevitt says some Bandon residents have stopped buying the cheese.

jbjeep

>>http://tinyurl.com/xpbp

Hey Nathan, thought you might find this mildly amusing...


Cheese company, Bandonites, lock horns over name

The Associated Press 12/18/2003, 1:00 a.m. PT

BANDON, Ore. (AP) - Bandon's Kettle Korn By the Sea does not make cheese. The Bandon
Cheese Co. does, but not in Bandon. David Nevitt, who makes his kettle corn out of
his house outside this south coastal town, sells it in the Bandon Cheese Co. store.
But a few weeks back he got a letter from the cheese people saying they had
trademarked the name.

"What are they going to do, sue everybody in the phone book who has the word 'Bandon'
in their name?" Nevitt wondered.

Bandon Cheese marketing director Kathy Holstad sent a letter to Larry Stotts, of
Bandon Coastal Ventures (who lives in the high desert town of Sisters and doesn't
make cheese either) and to several other companies. The local phone book lists more
than 60 Bandon this-or-thats, from a Quick Mart to a septic company. They don't make
cheese, either. The city fathers of Bandon, which was named after a 400-year-old
town in Ireland, not after the cheese, are taking this all very seriously and hiring
a trademark lawyer. The issue could have international ramifications," wrote City
Manager Matt Winkel to the company, which is owned by the Tillamook County Creamery
Association a couple of hundred miles to the north, and which makes a lot of cheese.

Holstad wrote that consumers get confused by multiple goods and services offered
under one name.

City Councilor Geri Procetto finds all this a bit strange. "If you go into Bandon
True Value, you're not going to ask for cheese," she quipped.

That's a good thing. They don't sell it.

"If we have to trademark our city, we'll trademark our city," she said. It seems the
Tillamook County Creamery Association bought Bandon Cheese in 2000 and registered two
trademarks, the words "Bandon" or "Bandon's" and the Coquille River Lighthouse. Then
the company closed its Bandon plant and now makes cheese in Tillamook and in Boardman
in Eastern Oregon.

The Bandon plant, founded in the 1920s, is just a retail store.

Attorney Robert Miller says there now is the issue of calling it Bandon Cheese at all
when it isn't made within hundreds of miles of the place. State law forbids labeling
that "uses deceptive representations or designations of geographic origin in
connection with real estate, goods or services."

Bandon wants Coos County District Attorney Paul Burgett to consider suing on behalf
of consumers, who may have thought they were buying cheese made in Bandon.

Company officials say they are not called "Bandon Cheese" any longer. The term
'Bandon Cheese' refers to a brand of cheese. It's now produced by the company's
artisan cheesemakers, using the Bandon recipe, the company said.

In April the company changed its name to Oregon Coast Foods although the label still
reads "Bandon," the store advertises the cheese as "hand-cheddared in Bandon since
1900," and the letters sent to area businesses came from "Bandon Cheese."

For now, the company says it only wants Nevitt to change the name of his kettle korn
and isn't concerned with product confusion with the hardware store or the septic
people.

Nevitt says some Bandon residents have stopped buying the cheese.

jbjeep

>>http://tinyurl.com/xpbp

Hey Nathan, thought you might find this mildly amusing...


Cheese company, Bandonites, lock horns over name

The Associated Press 12/18/2003, 1:00 a.m. PT

BANDON, Ore. (AP) - Bandon's Kettle Korn By the Sea does not make cheese. The Bandon
Cheese Co. does, but not in Bandon. David Nevitt, who makes his kettle corn out of
his house outside this south coastal town, sells it in the Bandon Cheese Co. store.
But a few weeks back he got a letter from the cheese people saying they had
trademarked the name.

"What are they going to do, sue everybody in the phone book who has the word 'Bandon'
in their name?" Nevitt wondered.

Bandon Cheese marketing director Kathy Holstad sent a letter to Larry Stotts, of
Bandon Coastal Ventures (who lives in the high desert town of Sisters and doesn't
make cheese either) and to several other companies. The local phone book lists more
than 60 Bandon this-or-thats, from a Quick Mart to a septic company. They don't make
cheese, either. The city fathers of Bandon, which was named after a 400-year-old
town in Ireland, not after the cheese, are taking this all very seriously and hiring
a trademark lawyer. The issue could have international ramifications," wrote City
Manager Matt Winkel to the company, which is owned by the Tillamook County Creamery
Association a couple of hundred miles to the north, and which makes a lot of cheese.

Holstad wrote that consumers get confused by multiple goods and services offered
under one name.

City Councilor Geri Procetto finds all this a bit strange. "If you go into Bandon
True Value, you're not going to ask for cheese," she quipped.

That's a good thing. They don't sell it.

"If we have to trademark our city, we'll trademark our city," she said. It seems the
Tillamook County Creamery Association bought Bandon Cheese in 2000 and registered two
trademarks, the words "Bandon" or "Bandon's" and the Coquille River Lighthouse. Then
the company closed its Bandon plant and now makes cheese in Tillamook and in Boardman
in Eastern Oregon.

The Bandon plant, founded in the 1920s, is just a retail store.

Attorney Robert Miller says there now is the issue of calling it Bandon Cheese at all
when it isn't made within hundreds of miles of the place. State law forbids labeling
that "uses deceptive representations or designations of geographic origin in
connection with real estate, goods or services."

Bandon wants Coos County District Attorney Paul Burgett to consider suing on behalf
of consumers, who may have thought they were buying cheese made in Bandon.

Company officials say they are not called "Bandon Cheese" any longer. The term
'Bandon Cheese' refers to a brand of cheese. It's now produced by the company's
artisan cheesemakers, using the Bandon recipe, the company said.

In April the company changed its name to Oregon Coast Foods although the label still
reads "Bandon," the store advertises the cheese as "hand-cheddared in Bandon since
1900," and the letters sent to area businesses came from "Bandon Cheese."

For now, the company says it only wants Nevitt to change the name of his kettle korn
and isn't concerned with product confusion with the hardware store or the septic
people.

Nevitt says some Bandon residents have stopped buying the cheese.

L.W.(=?iso-8859-1?Q?=DFill?=) Hughes III

Sixty five degrees, you think Houston will be that cold?
https://www.superbowlxxxviii.org/
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/

Matt Macchiarolo wrote:
>
> The game will still go on. Will probably play on a rainy day, about 65
> degrees, on a field that was just planted with grass seed the week before.
>
> ;-)
> * * *
> Matt Macchiarolo
> www.townpeddler.com
> www.wolverine4wd.org
> http://wolverine4wd.org/rigs/macchiarolo_ml.html

L.W.(=?iso-8859-1?Q?=DFill?=) Hughes III

Sixty five degrees, you think Houston will be that cold?
https://www.superbowlxxxviii.org/
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/

Matt Macchiarolo wrote:
>
> The game will still go on. Will probably play on a rainy day, about 65
> degrees, on a field that was just planted with grass seed the week before.
>
> ;-)
> * * *
> Matt Macchiarolo
> www.townpeddler.com
> www.wolverine4wd.org
> http://wolverine4wd.org/rigs/macchiarolo_ml.html