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

[Darin Nederhoff]

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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