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[Media Law Prof Blog] That high school symbol got its goat, and so The Chrysler Corporation got ram tough--Lake Mary High School is changing its logo rather than face a trademark infringement suit over the similarity of its Aries to Chrysler's famous ram.

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[Sentinel School Zone] Orlando Sentinel - Sentinel School Zone - Business leaders ...:  In case you hadn’t heard, Chrysler has demanded that Lake Mary High “cease and desist”  from using the rams head logo that someone at the school a few years ago apparently decided would make the perfect symbol for the school’s ram mascot. 

[Brant Collins] Brant Collins » Dodge makes bone headed mistake over ram logo: High school students are impressionable and will be future buyers, and Chrysler just left a bad impression that the school and town will never forget. What are your thoughts?

[Overlawyered] High school agrees to halt Chrysler Rams logo use: “As I am sure you can appreciate from your years of work with the board, control of use of a mark by enthusiastic students and parents is quite simply not practical, and I know the school and board would not want to be in the position of censoring student expression associated with the design,” wrote Judith Powell, an attorney for Chrysler.

[Orlando Opinionators] Orlando Sentinel - Orlando Opinionators - Give Seminole and A for ...: Now comes the response from the Seminole County School Board’s Business Advisory Board, which not only wants Chrysler to let Lake Mary High keep using the logo but asked the recently bankrupt auto company, which got a multibillion-dollar bailout from the feds – to write the school a $25,000 check and become part of the “adopt a school”

[The Truth About Cars] Imitating Chrysler Is Not The Sincerest Form Of Flattery | The ...: This is an opportunity for some great publicity, and with an audience that Chrysler needs to reach the most: young people. Give the school a gift, a Ram work truck (a Dakota or a last-gen Ram, of course).

[Overlawyered] Florida school team swipes Chrysler's “Rams” logo: Commenter VMS: “Sometimes corporations need to use their marketing brains rather than their legal muscle…. If Walter Chrysler were still around, he would have instructed his lawyers to license the mark to the team at minimal cost.”

[Obscure Store and Reading Room] Obscure Store and Reading Room: Chrysler settles with high school ...: I especially like that the parents are saying "Geez, how mean of Chrysler." instead of "What the hell were school officials thinking?"

[Fox5Vegas.com - News] Chrysler Dealers Upbeat, Still Worried - Automotive News Story ...: Mike Andretta, owner of a Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge dealership in central Pennsylvania, said most dealers realize they have to have faith in the new management, which is completely different from the group that last year bent dealers' arms to buy more vehicles to reduce Chrysler's inventory and justify government aid.

[The Legal Satyricon] Chrysler vs. Lake Mary High « The Legal Satyricon: But, if Lake Mary High wants to wear the Dodge logo, I’d imagine that it would have been a good move for Dodge to license it to them. Impressionable young minds, brand logo in their face all day long, in a pretty pickup-truck-heavy area no less.

[nissan car] nissan car » Blog Archive » Nissan, Chrysler Look releasing a mid ...: Later agreed on a Chrysler truck platform that will underpin the supply of the next generation Nissan Titan, the Japanese automaker large trucks. The Titan platform will share the same platform as the Dodge Ram, but with a differentBody.

[Building Blocks] 'Car czar' in town Thursday. Bearing $1.6 million for Chrysler ...: Tim Logan writes about real estate, economic development and the regional economy for the Post-Dispatch, where he's worked since March, 2007. Before that, he wrote for newspapers in New York and Indiana and earned a masters degree in urban affairs at St.

[Sentinel School Zone] Orlando Sentinel - Sentinel School Zone - Agreement signed to end ...: While a lot of Lake Mary students, parents and sympathizers have been chattering about how Chrysler could have simply let the school use the logo and accepted it as good publicity, Chrysler officials said that was not a possibility. There’s no telling how the ram might run wild, a company attorney wrote the School Board attorney.

[Automotive Blogs] Minivan Pledge aimed at 2010 Chrysler Town & Country, Dodge Grand ...: Minivan Pledge aimed at 2010 Chrysler Town & Country, Dodge Grand Caravan Buyers: read this blog post or join the discussion at Automotive.com. “The Dodge Grand Caravan and Chrysler Town & Country have been purchased by more customers than any other minivan, and we want new buyers to see why,” said Fred Diaz, President and Chief Executive Officer-Ram Brand and Lead Executive for the Sales Organization, Chrysler Group LLC.

[Sentinel School Zone] Orlando Sentinel - Sentinel School Zone - Did goat-napping Lake ...: I say another, because in case you have somehow missed all this, Lake Mary High has been in trouble for expropriating the Ramshead logo that Chrysler corporation uses on Dodge trucks. Cease and desist, the company said, and the School Board this week agreed posthaste. 

[360PR Blog] 'Twilight' and Anniversaries Top Toy Fair ”” 360PR Blog: Lake Mary High School in Lake Mary, Fla., has said it will stop using its ram's head logo by summer. Trouble is the logo is identical to Chrysler's Dodge Ram and the automaker threatened to sue.

[Sentinel School Zone] Orlando Sentinel - Sentinel School Zone - Chrysler sorry over Lake ...: It’s cold as heck up at Chrysler headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan, but the corporation is feeling the heat from Florida over its decision to force Lake Mary High to drop its use of the ram’s head logo pilfered from the company.

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