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

[Mike Sylvester]

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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