Originally Posted by
MrsBoats
This (
http://www.tabberone.com/Trademarks/trademarks.shtml) is an interesting article on the ins and outs of trademark protection, and lack thereof. A lot of it boils down to the designers would like it to work like that, but don't have any legal standing. They DO have a lot of money, though, with which to hire bully lawyers to make it seem like they do.
I agree--seems to be a case of bullying....reminds me of a recent article in our Sunday paper about people who own beachfront homes who put up all kinds of legal-looking "no parking" and "no public access" signs in the hopes of deterring people from perfectly legal access