After quite a struggle I got this composed, and then published it to the
WRONG BLOG!
It was supposed to go to my health/eco/age blog:
http://www.stopmowing.com/healthblog.html
Ok. Maybe with more hours of work it could be fixed. But for now,
it's with the Cats. Which is a kind of joyous thing anyhow.
Jeff
> Swampash sends us a story that even this community may find hard to
> believe. Johnson & Johnson, the health-products giant that uses a
> red cross as its trademark, is suing the American Red Cross,
> demanding the charity halt its use of the red cross symbol on
> products it sells to the public. It seems J&J began using the
> trademark in 1887, 6 years after the Red Cross was formed, but 13
> years before the charitable organization was chartered by Congress.
> Lately the ARC has begun licensing the symbol to third parties to
> use on fund-raising products such as home emergency kits.
So... how can either of them "License" it? I'm sure they've been
using it since before 1900. Is trademark eternal, unlike copyright?
