Penn State picking on elementary school

[hondo]

http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/092007/09272007/319892/

Bleep you Joe Pa. As if a few notebooks with a logo that looks like yours is going to drain much-needed revenue out of Happy Valley.

 

[slappy4428]

Hey, Penn State has to pick fights it can win anywhere it can get them.

 

[Hammer Pants]

The elementary school should just hire Lloyd Carr as an attorney. Penn State would settle before that sure loss ever got to court.

 

[Oz]

Bleep you Joe Pa. As if a few notebooks with a logo that looks like yours is going to drain much-needed revenue out of Happy Valley.

Trademark is a trademark. If you don't protect it, then what's the point in having a trademark?

 

[hondo]

Bleep you Joe Pa. As if a few notebooks with a logo that looks like yours is going to drain much-needed revenue out of Happy Valley.

Trademark is a trademark. If you don't protect it, then what's the point in having a trademark?

I hardly think an elementary school with a similar logo is going to cause much trouble for PSU, business-wise.

 

[Jeremy Goodwin]

Since when do grade schools have logos / nicknames?

I love these lines:

The Collegiate Licensing Co. did allow the school to keep a couple of cougar-image floor mats in the building. They were paid for by the Student Council Association.

The school off Leeland Road in southern Stafford also won't immediately have to dig up a time capsule stamped with the now-restricted logo, Cooper said.

Great, now when people dig up the capsule in 2100 they will see the logo and will create throw-back gear and this fiasco will happen again.

The school has since contracted with a firm to come up with a fluffier, more cartoonish cougar wearing a train conductor's cap.

Conway, near the Leeland train station, encourages its students to "stay on track."

fluffier with a cap? seriously? Now when Smith Grade School kids kick their ass in red rover they will make fun of the cap.

 

[kingcreole]

You know how many elementary schools, middle schools and high schools have logos that are ripoffs or major college or pro teams? 99 percent of them don't cause a stink because it really isn't a big deal. I guess it is to Penn State.

 

[outofplace]

Well, at least Penn State's legal team is more effective than its football team.

 

[Starman]

Every single school in the nation has computers, and every single school in the nation has talented kids who could probably whip up some kind of school logo. Let them do it.

If your high school (or grade school) can't come up with a logo, colors and fight song of its own, you're pretty ****-poor.

 

[Jeremy Goodwin]

Every single school in the nation has computers, and every single school in the nation has talented kids who could probably whip up some kind of school logo. Let them do it.

If your high school (or grade school) can't come up with a logo, colors and fight song of its own, you're pretty ****-poor.

I guess this is what we get for cutting funding for the arts.

 

[Clever username]

Bleep you Joe Pa. As if a few notebooks with a logo that looks like yours is going to drain much-needed revenue out of Happy Valley.

Trademark is a trademark. If you don't protect it, then what's the point in having a trademark?

I hardly think an elementary school with a similar logo is going to cause much trouble for PSU, business-wise.

Gotta agree with Oz here. What kind of precedent does it set if you knowingly allow someone to infringe on your copyright? It doesn't matter who is using it. If you don't protect it, you'll lose it.

 

[Starman]

My high school and grade school had their own colors, nicknames, fight songs and logos.

In our HS conference, fight songs included Notre Dame (2), Wisconsin, Michigan and "There'll Be A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight."

WTF?? :

 

[farmerjerome]

Douchebox.

Go Conway Cougars!

 

[wickedwritah]

Damn, those logos are pretty similar.

 

[slappy4428]

Bleep you Joe Pa. As if a few notebooks with a logo that looks like yours is going to drain much-needed revenue out of Happy Valley.

Trademark is a trademark. If you don't protect it, then what's the point in having a trademark?

Fixed

 

[D-3 Fan]

You know how many elementary schools, middle schools and high schools have logos that are ripoffs or major college or pro teams? 99 percent of them don't cause a stink because it really isn't a big deal. I guess it is to Penn State.

Penn State isn't the only one. Wisconsin pitched a ***** with a local school here over the "W" logo. Come to find out that they went after this school becuse the "W" was nearly identical to a T. Those dumb ****s should have went after the other 6 schools that had the same logo, rather than pick a fight with one.

Secondly I don't buy that bull**** reasoning that each school has to come up with their own. If that was the case, then we would have teams named "West High Bum****s", "East High Hayseeds" and "Sigourney-Keota Amishfolks."

Most of these schools came up with the nicknames they had back when they were opened, case in point in Iowa, as far back as 1918. Iowa Hawkeyes = Iowa City High Little Hawks; Northern Iowa Panthers = Northern University High Little Panthers; ISU Cyclones = Ames Little Cyclones.

Besides, how many schools are going to purposely rip off a college school and their logos? Leave it to the ****ing NCAA and their corporate sponsors to find ways to make a buck off of a student-athlete or a group of 3rd graders. They should be more worried about a company who is printing off logos without the school's permission than to **** with a 12-year old kid.

 

[BYH]

In related news, I'm suing anyone who writes BLOGS!!!!

One exclamation point or 10, CAPITAL LETTERS or not. Doesn't matter. Your ass is mine.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Bleep you Joe Pa. As if a few notebooks with a logo that looks like yours is going to drain much-needed revenue out of Happy Valley.

Trademark is a trademark. If you don't protect it, then what's the point in having a trademark?

I hardly think an elementary school with a similar logo is going to cause much trouble for PSU, business-wise.

Gotta agree with Oz here. What kind of precedent does it set if you knowingly allow someone to infringe on your copyright? It doesn't matter who is using it. If you don't protect it, you'll lose it.

Totally agreed. Legally you have to protect your copyright; to allow an infringement is a very, very bad precedent. Penn State had no choice, and even the school seems to think Penn State was pretty good about the whole thing.

 

[wickedwritah]

Most of these schools came up with the nicknames they had back when they were opened, case in point in Iowa, as far back as 1918. Iowa Hawkeyes = Iowa City High Little Hawks; Northern Iowa Panthers = Northern University High Little Panthers; ISU Cyclones = Ames Little Cyclones.

Besides, how many schools are going to purposely rip off a college school and their logos? Leave it to the ****ing NCAA and their corporate sponsors to find ways to make a buck off of a student-athlete or a group of 3rd graders. They should be more worried about a company who is printing off logos without the school's permission than to **** with a 12-year old kid.

1. That's usually the way it works in many of those schools' cases, since they have some form of exemption. Penn State even lets State College High use "Little Lions." They're not the totally evil bastards you think they are.
2. They do pursue those companies who make counterfeit merchandise, too.

 

[wickedwritah]

Most of these schools came up with the nicknames they had back when they were opened, case in point in Iowa, as far back as 1918. Iowa Hawkeyes = Iowa City High Little Hawks; Northern Iowa Panthers = Northern University High Little Panthers; ISU Cyclones = Ames Little Cyclones.

Besides, how many schools are going to purposely rip off a college school and their logos? Leave it to the ****ing NCAA and their corporate sponsors to find ways to make a buck off of a student-athlete or a group of 3rd graders. They should be more worried about a company who is printing off logos without the school's permission than to **** with a 12-year old kid.

1. That's usually the way it works in many of those schools' cases, since they have some form of exemption. Boston College High School uses a similar, if not the same, Eagle logo. Penn State even lets State College High use "Little Lions." They're not the totally evil bastards you think they are.
2. They do pursue those companies who make counterfeit merchandise, too, especially on game day.