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

[Robert Myers]

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Yeah, I remember those.  NLA as are OEM mats from Audi.  Once again 
we have been abandoned.

Bob


At 10:13 AM 10/18/2010, Darin Nederhoff wrote:
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>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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