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

[Wylie Bean]

That's a great idea Steve, especially with Audi having such a strong connection with the ACNA these days. 
Wylie Bean
TheRingmeister at triad.rr.com
90 cq
91 90q20v
92 UrS4
08 Q7 3.6
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-----Original Message-----
From: <smarinello at entouch.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:55:31 
To: 'Darin Nederhoff'<scarsgo at gmail.com>; <s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com>; 'Mike Sylvester'<mike at urq20v.com>; 'Wylie Bean'<theringmeister at triad.rr.com>
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Cc: Robert Myers<bob at chips-ur-s.com>; S-CAR list<s-car-list at audifans.com>; Quattro list<quattro at audifans.com>; JC<jc at j2c3.com>
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Trial Balloon - mats w/ logo

I wonder if, perhaps, this might be an opportunity to see if Audi and the Audi Club, 

N.A. actually do something for us.  Since the mats are NLA, maybe we can get one of 

our illustrious directors to get Audi to send a letter releasing the restriction for 

mats for the older cars for a specific set of scripts.  



I know, In know...A long shot, but maybe...an opportunity to actually work with 

them???  Any Board member want to chime in and give it a shot?



Steve



On Mon Oct 18 10:27 , "Wylie Bean"  sent:



>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

>Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®

>

>-----Original Message-----

>From: Darin Nederhoff scarsgo at gmail.com>

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>Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:13:12 

>To: Mike Sylvestermike at urq20v.com>

>Cc: JCjc at j2c3.com>; Robert Myersbob at chips-ur-s.com>; quattro 

listquattro at audifans.com>; S-CAR lists-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 [jc at j2c3.com','','','')">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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