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Check with your local intellectual property lawyer. Trademark protection is very important in the business and legal world. Just because you think it's a joke doesn't mean it is. It's serious business. Brand names matter.

Not all cars are Fords. Not all soft drinks are Coke. And not all youth baseball is Little League.

WOW! That is very serious..... Using little league in a post on officiating.com....... Run Tony, hurry hide the intellectual property police might be after you!

Oops. You forgot the ®.

Companies concerned with protecting their trademark, like Kleenex®, Xerox®, Coca Cola®, insist that the trade mark sign accompany their corporate trade mark.

If you going to preach, practice.

This is so funny, I have to wipe my tears of laughter with a Kleenix...sorry, I mean "tissue."

Yesterday, I had to replace my daughter's Band-Aid...I mean "adhesive bandage."

Little League is what most people call youth baseball in conversation b/c nearly everybody will associate youth baseball w/ the words "little league" so it keeps things simple in conversations.

So ... if a name is copyrighted, no one is allowed to even say it? or type it?

It's a big deal if you're trying to profit off of your product by using a trademark of another product.

Please forgive me ... but just yesterday, I tore a mattress tag off my bedding. I suppose I should be pilloried.

:cool:®

I have registered the "cool" smiley as my trademark. Please forward all requests to use it to my lawyer at the law offices of Dewey, Cheatum, & Howe.

Ed Zachary what my point was.

In my part of the country, when someone says "Let's stop and get a coke", they mean any soft drink, reagrdless of brand. I'm 100% sure the Coca-Cola Company doesn't mind.

I understand that since Dewey and Howe retired, Cheatum has taken on the latest american corporate business plan and sales have triple.

I imagine they're happy about that, just so long as someone doesn't try to market their locally made sodas as "Coca-Cola." No one was marketing this <s>little league</s> local league as being associated with "Little League," and this forum hardly qualifies as an advertisement for this particular league.

All true but I bet you wouldn't be making as big a deal of it if he said he blew his nose in a Kleenex (and it wasn't Kleenex brand) or that he put on a Band-Aid and it was made by Johnson and Johnson.

I have great respect for your umpiring knowledge but you do stand out as a big time Little League Baseball apologist. This isn't the legal world; it is the umpiring world.

Except when a member of Team B commits a foul while A1 is in the Act of Shooting. :D

MTD, Sr.

Personally, I wouldn't want to be associated with Little League anyway.

Rich Ives, get a life.

Picking buggers...:rolleyes:

Personally, I think it's up to the organization to police intellectual property, not some coach from New York who thinks he knows better than every umpire he's ever met.

That's just me, though.