U.S. Olympic Committee objects to name of Olympia, Wash., newspaper

http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/993266.html

USOC attorneys argue that the name of The Olympian, the newspaper in Olympia, Wash., is so similar to USOC trademarks that it falsely suggests a connection between the newspaper and the USOC.

A 1998 amendment to the federal trademark law protecting the USOC has a clause that recognizes Washington state's right to the term; the exception covers "covers naturally occurring mountains or the geographic region named prior to Feb. 6, 1998, and where 'such businesses, goods, or services are operated, sold, and marketed in the State of Washington west of the Cascade Mountain range and operations, sales, and marketing outside of this area are not substantial.'" Olympia is west of the Cascades, southwest of Tacoma.

 

Yeah this makes total sense.

 

The USOC should just wait five years, at the rate they are laying people off, The Olympian won't exist by then anyway.

 

The I.O.C. should sue Atlanta for putting on a pseudo-Olympics:

 

Memo to Leuzinger High Olympians: See you in court.

 

Is the ISOC going to sue Olympic National Park next?

 

I'd put the over/under on three years for them becoming a single section of the News-Tribune. Already might as well be.

And I'm taking the under.

 

i covered a game with leuzinger many moons ago.

from lawndale, also the fictional school for "daria."

 

Olympia Dukakis and Olympia Snowe must now change their name or risk a lawsuit.

 

Don't forget a high school team in one of Bubbler's old haunts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_East_High_School

 

Also, that line in the original Terminator movie where Arnold has stolen a cop car in L.A. and mimics the voice of the cop he has just killed, saying, "Heading westbound on Olympic, approaching Overland"---'Olympic' now has to get bleeped out.