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And, any reader who can provide an answer, please do - who is the purported owner of the trademark purportedly owned per the footer of the linked page?
That footer is sort of a shell game, guessing game. Given that the city has been paying massive amounts of money to Lanform, to buy something of presumed value, one expects in the normal course of things the city would own intellectual property. But this is not the normal course of things, This is Ramsey.
WHO OWNS?
PURPORTEDLY?
Who to contact,
for use authorization?
And for the Town of Ramsey chumps who paid good money thinking they were buying a very unique styled trade name, there is this from the USPTO, (first 100 returns for a TESS search of the term "COR") showing it's a trademark for everything from furniture, facial soap, musical entertainment services, and medical scrubs (pants and tops). And that's only within the first 100 returned items - coincidentally NOT including any City of Ramsey real estate promotion/huckstering trade use, in the first 100.
Hence, the question.
Mayor Bob, you read Crabgrass, so who owns?
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fyi - I took screenshots of the four other "COR" trademarks with trade usage info, but chose not to post the extra images, and I could not link because TESS sessions expire on logout or a timeout, with linking to specific data records impossible. Any reader should be able to search and retrieve them easily, as I did. Doubtlessly one more experienced than I am might have been able to quickly find a registered real estate promotion/huckstering trademark with the brown color and "melanoma-O" -- but after the first hundred, I decided to post - as a challenge game - sort of, to get somebody to respond.
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I suppose the local genius who said "passion, patience and persistence" pay off had it in mind that if you try hard enough to find something, it turns up - to the passionate, patient and persistent. This screenshot:
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I failed to find further detail, in color, on the USPTO site, but for those who might care, once that page with the ID numbers is found, this page can be used to get details, such as this USPTO "specimen" screen capture:
Now all of that begs the question - Do I need to seek a city resolution being passed by the council to allow me to mock and belittle the stupidity of the effort by using the symbology, colors and all, with the added "...pse" after the trademarked thingy - i.e., the CORpse? Or is it fair use commentary, for a citizen and resident and voter of an owning city, to use drawings, etc., as I have of the COR thing, the Ben Dover statue, the blue cattail city logo, etc.? I say it's fair use what I've done and they can sue me if they don't like it. That would be very thin-skinned and my defense would be Harry Truman's adage, "If you can't stand the heat stay out of the kitchen." And, now that I have proven that the city owns the trademark I can belittle the process of its being bought for obscenely high amounts of money, such as it is, the "rebranding" as lipstick on a pig.
Etc.
Don't overindulge on Thanksgiving Day fodder. End of post.
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