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Texas making Kossuth HS change its logo

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croomin

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Stupidity. How does it hurt UT to have a high school identify with them. It helps them. 17'n lawyers.
 
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RocketDawg

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croomin said:
Stupidity. How does it hurt UT to have a high school identify with them. It helps them. 17'n lawyers.
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Probably got mostly offended that the background is maroon, with the A&M connotation. But all schools are really possessive about their logos.
 
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patdog

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This really makes Texas look bad. I understand they have to protect their trademark. But generally, colleges give the high schools license to use their logo for $10 or so. Bush league move by Texas, but about what I would expect from them.
 
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KeyserSoze1999

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High School is all about logo stealing---not really a big deal.

Check out MGhelmets.com they have every High School helmet of every team of all 50 states---crazy amount of time spent to catalog all of this stuff.

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Rebels7

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croomin said:
Stupidity. How does it hurt UT to have a high school identify with them. It helps them. 17'n lawyers.
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It's a legal issue. If they allow them to have it, they lose their trademark. It happens all the time, and if the university in question is understanding, they let them finish out the season with the logo if they agree to change it. There are several Texas schools off the top of my head that have dealt with this issue.

Wisconsin, Arizona come to mind.
 
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wpmusm

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Couple more:

Pass Christian (TB Bucs)



Walnut (Ohio Bobcats)



Yazoo City (BYU Cougars)



Carroll Academy (Retired Ole Miss Colonel Reb logo)



Old PCS logo when I was there, though I think it has been changed since I graduated. Only difference was that it was in blue, not red. Very similar to Cincy.

 
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jacksonreb

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if the texas admin weren't such a**holes they could

license it to the high school for a few bucks, be decent people and still protect their trademark, but TX football fans are not known for generosity or graciousness.



Rebels7 said:
It's a legal issue. If they allow them to have it, they lose their trademark. It happens all the time, and if the university in question is understanding, they let them finish out the season with the logo if they agree to change it. There are several Texas schools off the top of my head that have dealt with this issue.

Wisconsin, Arizona come to mind.
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Lawdawg.sixpack

Lawdawg.sixpack

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That's odd that Texas would challenge Kossuth. Scroll through the Texas high school helmets and notice how many of them use the longhorn logo. In order to protect their mark, they'd have to send cease and desists to all of them too. And if they're just now doing it, high schools in Texas have surely used the marks long enough now to argue that Texas failed to protect, even in their own backyard. Either way, though, I doubt any of them could afford to fight it out in court.

Here's the Texas list. Just about every one is infringement. http://www.mghelmets.com/Texas.html

Best helmet ever:


/I'm still pissed that Wisconsin issued a cease and desist to The Woodlands...
 
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