[s-cars] Trial Balloon - mats w/ logo

[Ian Duff]

Why, because you're some kind of fifth wheel <grin>?

-Ian.

On 18 Oct, 2010, at 10:30, Darin Nederhoff wrote:

> I'd get mine made with cinco instead of quattro. :-)
> 
> Darin Nederhoff
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> On Oct 18, 2010, at 9:27 AM, "Wylie Bean" <theringmeister at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have a set of them in black. Lloyds had to cease poduction though..... Got a "nasty letter" from Audi.
>> Wylie Bean
>> TheRingmeister at triad.rr.com
>> 90 cq
>> 91 90q20v
>> 92 UrS4
>> 08 Q7 3.6
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Darin Nederhoff <scarsgo at gmail.com>
>> Sender: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
>> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:13:12
>> To: Mike Sylvester<mike at urq20v.com>
>> Cc: JC<jc at j2c3.com>; Robert Myers<bob at chips-ur-s.com>; quattro list<quattro at audifans.com>; S-CAR list<s-car-list at audifans.com>
>> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Trial Balloon - mats w/ logo
>> 
>> Back when I had my '90 CQ 20V I had Lloyd mats that said quattro on
>> them. Even had the correct font.
>> 
>> Darin Nederhoff
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>> On Oct 18, 2010, at 6:32 AM, "Mike Sylvester" <mike at urq20v.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I was able to get a set with urq20v, but I guess they wouldn't know what
>>> that is.
>>> 
>>> Can Audi copyright a number?  Unless you used their font, I don't they
>>> could do anything about using quattro.
>>> Even S6 might be OK.  That is why Intel changed their processor after
>>> the 486.  They couldn't trademark the number.  AMD was using Intel
>>> numbering with their processors so Intel went to Pentium etc.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Mike
>>> 
>>> www.urq20v.com
>>> 
>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Trial Balloon - mats w/ logo
>>>> From: "Steve Marinello" <smarinello at entouch.net>
>>>> Date: Sun, October 17, 2010 12:00 am
>>>> To: "'JC'" <jc at j2c3.com>, "'Robert Myers'" <bob at chips-ur-s.com>,
>>>> "'S-CAR list'" <s-car-list at audifans.com>
>>>> Cc: 'quattro list' <quattro at audifans.com>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I tried urquattro and '83 urq and Lloyds refused.  My position was, as you
>>>> stated, that it was the enthusiast community that had coined and continues
>>>> to use the term, not Audi.
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: JC [mailto:jc at j2c3.com]
>>>> Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 10:41 PM
>>>> To: 'Steve Marinello'; 'Robert Myers'; 'S-CAR list'
>>>> Cc: 'quattro list'
>>>> Subject: RE: [s-cars] Trial Balloon - mats w/ logo
>>>> 
>>>> Yep. I suspect it will work out like this - you could get a small shop to do
>>>> a one-off (or at least maybe 2 or 3 sets) but the minute it gets to a big
>>>> group buy quantity people will get nervous and the places you'd most like to
>>>> use for price/quality reasons will not want to touch it. BTDT before when  I
>>>> had some shirts with a logo made... got a few one-offs for myself, my
>>>> friends dug them and stole a number of them from me. I went back for more in
>>>> a small batch quantity and the place suddenly got real real nervous and
>>>> didn't want to do any anymore.
>>>> 
>>>> Interested about the "UrQ" thing though, surprised they Audi could prevail
>>>> on that but maybe they are just being super cautious or maybe Audi added all
>>>> kinds of "Ur" stuff to their copyrights at some point.  I'd think it
>>>> wouldn't hold up due to prior usage (aka it was enthusiasts that coined and
>>>> used the terms widely first?) but whaddoiknow I'm no Perry Mason.
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Well, I really like Lloyds mats, but as the reason they
>>>>> don't/won't do the ring logo, or anything else Audi,
>>>>> INCLUDING urq or urquattro, which I tried to get, because of
>>>>> VW/Audi's licensing position, I think it will be hard to find
>>>>> someone else to do it for a group.
>>>>> 
>>>>> That being said, I'd love a set!
>>>>> 
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