Bumper stickers

[heidi tandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 6714

Nothing in this post contains legal advice!



--- Nick Mitchell <nick at dvd-films.freeuk.com> wrote:

> Now that one I think we can have... will have to
> look up to see if Ford has
> registered Ford Anglia as a trademark.  They
> probably have, but they might
> give permission, you never know.

They actually don't have a registration in the US - I didn't check 
the UK, but they probably would have a registration for ANGLIA there. 
I don't think the car was ever marketed under that name in the US

> > , or even, "My other broom is a Firebolt"
> 
> Have to look that one up... think we are allowed it.
>  Probably best if we
> register that phrase as a trademark - then Warner
> Bros can't use it.
Actually, WB hasn't filed a trademark application for FIREBOLT 
(although they have for NIMBUS 2000) and I don't acutally think they 
can, because the Firebolt doesn't come up  until Book 3, and I don't 
think that WB has the rights to anything in the books, other than 1 & 
2 - for example, they have filed applications for HARRY POTTER, 
DUMBLEDORE and DRACO MALFOY (sorry cassandra - you can't get a 
trademark (TRADEMARK!) registration for DRACO MALFOY for leather 
pants), but not for SIRIUS BLACK, REMUS LUPIN or PETER PETTIGREW 
since they don't appear in books 1-2 (although they could probably 
argue that the should get to register sirius because he is mentioned 
in Book 1, Chapter 1) 
Therefore, without giving legal advice, I can surmise that anyone who 
created one of these proposed bumper stickers on their computer (get 
out that Full Page Sticky Paper, guys!) for their own car (or bike, 
or scooter) would not be violating trademark law, because they 
wouldn't be using a WB trademark for commercial purposes - but anyone 
who created one which they gave or sold to someone else would be 
committing a trademark infringement. 
But none of this was legal advice, ok?