Did you read the article? There was no "legal action." The high school agreed to change their block R to a different R with a bearcat head. This happens all the time. Parties come to an agreement on these things.
Granted it's a small town and I guess the NBC affiliate out of Monroe, LA isn't covering much of a market either. Monroe's population is about the same as New Brunswick.
This. Rutgers has a registered trademark on the Block R design. They discovered a high school in Louisiana uses a nearly identical design, so they contacted the school. The school certainly had the option to challenge Rutgers' trademark (though an internet search shows that Ruston HS has used different R designs over the years, so they probably wouldn't be able to show prior use). Instead the high school came to an agreement with Rutgers to phase in a new logo design over 10 years. It is pretty generous of Rutgers to agree to this since the University certainly could have insisted that the high school change the logo immediately.
I was wondering that too. An internet search shows that Ruston used a different R logo in 1996, and the current R logo in 2006. But I didn't find anything for years in between.
The Block R existed in Rutgers historical photos.Rutgers claims a first use of the block R as January 31, 2003:
Had Ruston high school been able to show use prior to that date, they could have claimed prior user rights. Linked story above simply said Ruston had been using the block R for "years." Guessing that their use started after Rutgers' use.
Heard Ruston's football stadium is THE SHI, however.
Someone in the reddit thread mentions high schools use the Kstate powercat, pay $1 per year and specify that it is a KSU trademark and that’s that.
That’s you’re opinion but if you read the article this was worked out.
The Block R existed in Rutgers historical photos.
1882.. the town of Ruston was first formed in 1883
In other news, we are also suing Where's Waldo (1987 creation) over the cap
Some people like to find ways to hate everything Rutgers does.
Their Stadium may be the SHI but ours is officially SHI.Rutgers claims a first use of the block R as January 31, 2003:
Had Ruston high school been able to show use prior to that date, they could have claimed prior user rights. Linked story above simply said Ruston had been using the block R for "years." Guessing that their use started after Rutgers' use.
Heard Ruston's football stadium is THE SHI, however.
Ridgemont High School up next.
Ridgemont High School up next.
Completely agree. There are other colleges/HS's that also have a very similar Block R - are we gonna go have all of them?
