Re: Grill "trademarks">

[Steven Luftman <sluftman@domain.elided>]

Daimler Chrysler lost the suit.


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Steven Luftman <sluftman@domain.elided>
1961 Giulietta Spider
1992 164L

on 11/13/02 4:46 PM, alfa-digest at owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided wrote:

> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:08:27 -0500 (EST)
> From: adoherty@domain.elided (Adam Doherty)
> Subject: Grill "trademarks"
> 
> Joe Elliot said:
> 
> "I've wondered about this since I was little kid.  I realize that it's
> a moot point in the USA where Lancia doesn't have a presence, but can
> Mitsubishi really use Lancia's 'corporate grille' all over the world
> without any kind of legal action being taken?  It seems to me that
> grille design like that could be some sort of registered trademark.
> Wouldn't BMW sue them if they tried putting two chrome rectangles on
> the front of their cars?"
> 
> This is exactly what happened when Jeep/Chrysler/Daimler  sued (is suing)
> "Hummer" over their 7-slot (?) grill config. over the past year.....
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