I said before that I understood the rationale behind the Rangers or the Phillies going after people for using their trademarks or copyrighted slogans and all of that. But this one seems about 52 years and 3000 miles too late: the Dodgers are suing a Brooklyn hamburger vendor for using a script “Brooklyn” design in its logo that looks like the old Dodgers script.
The article talks about the legal and practical issues with this -- the hamburger guy registered the trademark and, the Dodgers’ rights to “Brooklyn” appear to be limited to apparel sales and, you know, the team left New York over half a century ago. But the best part are the quotes from other local businessmen -- and there are many of them -- who use similar script “Brooklyns” in their logo:
“Oh, f--- them! What do they have to do with Brooklyn?” said Lindi, 41. “They left Brooklyn years ago. We don’t let nobody push us around. Change our logo? Oh, fuhgeddaboudit. Tell them to come down here, we’ll straighten it all out.”
Wait, did the Daily News actually find a real person to say this, or did they file their story from Brooklyn central casting?