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American Red Cross Sued For Using a Red Cross
Swampash sends us a story that even this community may find hard to believe. Johnson & Johnson, the health-products giant that uses a red cross as its trademark, is suing the American Red Cross, demanding the charity halt its use of the red cross symbol on products it sells to the public. It seems J&J began using the trademark in 1887, 6 years after the Red Cross was formed, but 13 years before the charitable organization was chartered by Congress. Lately the ARC has begun licensing the symbol to third parties to use on fund-raising products such as home emergency kits.
On the other hand, can the Catholic Church sue J&J for trademark violation of the "cross"?
Hey ass-face, read the article, again:
"It said these product include baby mitts, nail clippers, combs, toothbrushes, hand sanitizers and humidifiers.
The Red Cross said that many of the products in question were part of health and safety kits, and that profits from the sales -- totaling less than $10 million (7.25 million) -- went to boost Red Cross disaster-response efforts."
PROFITS FROM SALES WENT TO BOOST RED CROSS DISASTER-RESPONSE EFFORTS.
Someone call out the bunco squad! Yeah Johnson and Johnson must be really hurting by these sales of safety kits.
Get over it, the Johnson and Johnson will lose this case. The greater question should be, can you trade mark a red cross? Considering there is prior art for the red cross - any war the uses the red cross to denote a hospital for example, it's hard to allow an invidual company to own such a symbol.
Yup. Americans are shits.
They don't believe in international organisations, so they do a Micro$oft on the ones they find useful. So you have the Red Cross and the American Red Cross, the Boy Scouts and the Boy Scouts of America.....
Why doesn't someone nuke the US and give it back to the natives when it's cooled down?
I say fuck the ARC. They're just a bunch of queer-haters. I hope J&J wins.
"That which does not kill us makes us stranger." -Trevor Goodchild