Today in College Football Insanity: Ohio State wants to trademark "THE" & University of Texas issues a C&D to a Arizona High School for their logo

[Dude Abides]

It's fair enough, that's the only word OSU students and alums can spell correctly.

 

[SwampBastard]

Fuck OSU. I hate the "The" thing so much even if I know it's an irrational hatred.

 

[Elderly Parrot]

i'm kidding.

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No you have something there. If they sell merchandise which most bands do and have been using it in commerce in the US they have a vested interest in protecting the use of their name and may object because the public may also associate the mark with them as well. Like Kylie minogue stopping Kylie Jenner trademarking Kylie

 

[MIMIC]

As an OSU alum, the "the" thing is a little obnoxious, but I hope it's granted just to piss everyone off even more lol

 

[Hippopuncher12]

As an OSU alum, the "the" thing is a little obnoxious, but I hope it's granted just to piss everyone off even more lol

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Let's just go full Sith Lord at this point, everyone hates us anyway. Fuck it.

 

[Drax]

er, no, this is actually old news and we have been discussing it on ut message boards for a long time, including a member of the school in question chiming in. Ut is not playing ball, they arent going to license it. Thats precisely why i had the georgia tech example on the quick draw, because we have been talking about it.

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gotya, its just its fairly common for a lot of universities (and its very frequent right now) and most just play ball.

 

[Rocketz]

Ohhh and the logo thing with Texas. My high school had to change our logo as well. We use to have the Wisconsin W and it's a different style now because of copyright.

I was gone before the change so I have the old logo on my helmet.

 

[Tawpgun]

I thought high schools and below used common professional sports team names all the time.

 

[Lonestar]

Who is OSU? You mean OSUn, OSUs or OSUw?

 

[Slayven]

wow they have all this money to throw at these issues, but not enough money to pay players

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Get them