So Duke University wants to make sure it is the "Duke" that is first and foremost associated with alcoholic beverages.
Considering my time there, yeah, sounds about right.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr...ue-duke-717163
Duke on Duke violence. Can't we all get along?
So Duke University wants to make sure it is the "Duke" that is first and foremost associated with alcoholic beverages.
Considering my time there, yeah, sounds about right.
Will my Alma mater sue me for naming one of my dogs Duke? Bring it on.
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Standard lawyer bs. Two trademark applications at issue: "Duke" and "Duke John Wayne"
The University wins the first case (the Trademark "Duke" won't be registered to JWEnterprises for alcohol) but loses the second.
Its fair that the University doesn't want "Duke" liquor on the market.
An amusing allegation is that the parties have vastly different customer bases. How does the University deny that allegation? "No, our prospective customers, high school students, are generally quite mature and are voracious consumers of alcohol, and our current customers are students, and we all know what that's like!"
John Wayne's Heirs Sue Duke University
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/...-duke-24486249
But wasn't John Wayne known as THE Duke? Not just Duke? If they named the bourbon THE DUKE, would Duke U. have a problem with it?
I think the fact that "The Duke" is a nickname and "Duke" is someone's *actual* name would play a part in this, would it not?
Plus, the Duke family name was well established before John Wayne was even born.
As I see it, the problem isn't the name Duke whiskey, it's the very likely fact that the whiskey tastes like the hind end of one of John Wayne's horses.
Nothing incites bodily violence quicker than a Duke fan turning in your direction and saying 'scoreboard.'
This debate reminds me of when Warner Brothers threatened to sue the Marx Brothers over the title of their film: A Night at Casablanca, claiming that the title infringed on their earlier film Casablanca.
Groucho wrote Jack Warner a letter threatening to countersue because "the Marx brothers were around longer than the Warner brothers, so using "brothers" in the title of their company was also a copyright infringement.
Don't know the legal issues involved, but Warner dropped the suit.
I do know that Duke will aggressively protect its copyrights. Not as bad as Texas A&M, which squared off a Buffalo fan trying to use the term "12th man" in a campaign to save the Buffalo Bills. The guy was a double-amputee, living on disability, who was not using the term to make money, just to name a petition drive to keep the Bills in Buffalo:
http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews...-debacle.html/
Was The Duke Shop on Ninth street------DU made them change the name
Yeop...
http://www.theduckshop.net/about-us.aspx
At first reading one of the headlines, I thought it was Duke University that had the booze label, and I was thinking "Where was that Duke University tequila when I was a student?!?!"
How's this look:
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[redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.
Or maybe this:
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[redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.
How about a coaster for your chilled adult beverage sir/madam:
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[redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.