<<<Interestingly (or ominously?), earlier this year some guy in New Jersey applied for a trademark on the word "Quizbowl" for a buzzer system: [URLs deleted] According to the current status, "Final review prior to publication has been completed, application will be published for opposition.">>> This, I think, may well be ominous.... could this person then, say, force NAQT to remove the words "Quiz Bowl" from their WWW site under threat of litigation? After all.... "Quiz Bowl" would then refer to his buzzer system. Perhaps this is overreacting; one could theoretically argue that the provision of buzzer systems is NOT close enough to the function of either question-writing organizations or academic competition groups, and therefore his claims on the term would not be enforceable on QB at large. Can any of you legal types shed some light on the matter? [See: <a href=http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/tac/doc/basic/registration.html target=new>http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/tac/doc/basic/registration.html</a> for more information. In any case, it states there that "Any party who believes it may be damaged by the registration of the mark has 30 days from the date of publication to file an opposition to registration."]
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