Re: College Bowl trademark

• From: julie_stahlhut
• Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:21:43 -0800
• Message-ID: <000S5D667.0018RQMO8.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

Tak Seorangpun wrote:

Interestingly (or
ominously?), earlier this year some guy in New Jersey applied
for a
 trademark on the word "Quizbowl" for a
buzzer system:

<a href=http://trademarks.uspto.gov/cgi-bin/ifetch4?ENG+ALL+3+945673+0+1+59503+F+1+1+1+M target=new>http://trademarks.uspto.gov/cgi-bin/ifetch4?ENG+ALL+3+945673+0+1+59503+F+1+1+1+M</a>
 S%2f%22quizbowl%22
 According to the current
status at

<a href=http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=75717905 target=new>http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=75717905</a>
 "Final review prior to publication has been
completed, application will be published for

opposition." 


Hmmmm. Does it behoove this community
to point out that "quiz bowl" has been in common use
in the high-school quiz community for decades, and
has pretty much replaced the former common usage of
"College Bowl" in the collegiate/postcollegiate world over
the past two or three years?

Seriously, legal
eagles -- need/should anything be done?

Julie