Re: Subject: Re: Porsche, Audi driver mag, & Autozone

["Bernard Littau" <bernardl@acumenassociates.com>]

Chris points out:

>OK, I'll bite.
>What's wrong with some form of quattro?  quattrocars.com; aquattro.com,
>quattrofans.com....
>audi doesn't really have the copyright, as it is used by a number of
venders
>(I've even got an espresso maker called the quattro, and of course, the
>quattro pro software... quattro just means "four", correct?).  Keep it the
>quattro list, but make the opening bit say "a site for all audi fans" or
such.

I'm not a legal professional, so take with grain of salt.

I remember lusting after a Masarati Quattro Porte back in the 70's.  It was
a
nice large four door Masarati.  This, unless Audi and Masarati litigated,
somewhat dilutes Audi's claim to Quattro for use related to cars.

Audi would generally have no claim to non-car related use, as pointed out by
Chris with the examples above.

I, too, would say using quattro as a site name, even for the discussion of
Audi
cars, is sufficiently in the gray area of violating an Audi trademark that I
would
go for it.

Bernard Littau
Woodinville, WA
Audi-less, but soon...