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Didn't settle our of court. K&N won $11,400 and ownership of the website knfiltersale.com
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Iq9YjaWCcGoJ:e-foia.uspto.gov/Foia/ReterivePdf%3Fsystem%3DNOS%26flNm%3D96049_T_76160096+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
Yes, i was that bored.
Nevermind, I found it. That lawsuit was K&N against a guy who created a website (knfilterssale.com) using K&N's logo at material in an attempt to take traffic and sales away from the K&N website.\
That's a heck of a lot different than a guy using K&N Filters wanting to brag about it by putting...
I was replying to you as much as anybody else. I can't find anything about that case anywhere other than a few sites showing that it was filed. Nothing that says what the suit was actually about.
Create design in Illustrator, save as .eps. Import into Flexi-Sign, apply gradient stripe, save as .eps. Open in Illustrator.
Damn sure faster....if you own Flexi. :wink:
I would personally try to talk them into using the 3M Command Adhesive hooks. I love those things, they hold forever, and they can remove them. Ideally they should put them up at each location so all they have to do is move the sign and leave the hooks each time...
The thing that surprises me is that the company is standing by it and trying to write it off as a marketing experiment. From what I've read it was a couple of employees who thought it would be funny and stuck it on a personal vehicle.
The last one is by far the best of the bunch but get rid of the dang "#" symbols. Is there anybody out there who is gonna look at "22" and ask "What's them there sybols, mama?"
50% markup won't keep you open on stuff you're actually manufacturing.
A safer (very simplistic) bet, as a minimum, is:
33% for overhead
33% for material costs
33% for salaries
(again, very simplistic but it's a good starting point)
Can you cite any examples of someone cutting logos for a dirt bike getting sued? I know it's illegal but is it actually ever enforced on small scale production stuff like that?
The only time I've ever heard of it happening was a flea market where a lawyer had the guy cut some HD logos for him...
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