This story in the NYT Magazine about Braddock, PA and its “revitalization” front man, John Fetterman, should be read in conjunction with this David Pogue column about page numbers in e-books. How can the future deal with the past?
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Two years ago, with the Pittsburgh Steelers on the cusp of winning their sixth Super Bowl title, I mused in this blog post about the validity of trademark registrations in the iconic Terrible Towel. My takeaway: There are substantial reasons to doubt the marks’ validity, even if it is extremely unlikely that anyone would raise a validity challenge.
Has the time come for such a challenge? Today, with the Pittsburgh Steelers on the losing end of a bid for a seventh Super Bowl title, I learned that lawyers representing the marks’ owner, the Allegheny Valley School (near Pittsburgh), have sent a cease and desist letter to the developer and distributor of a Terrible Towel “app” for the Android mobile operating system. More below the jump.
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