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Edward France wrote: | Interesting. It seems that the trademark may be on the full 'Build-A-Bike | Workshop' phrase instead of just ending at the word bike. It seems like | repairing old bikes as a team gives team building and leadership skills - as | that's what the 'Leadership Instituite' is apparently selling with their | Build-A-Bike workshop.
ianal, but as i understand the doctrine of "previous art," you just can't do that. or rather, you can go ahead and register it all you want, but the fact that we've been using it for years--with *lots* of documentation--as well as the fact that we're not competing with them, renders their claim pretty useless.
| Maybe we could rent out our shops to corporate retreat groups, they could | just take over our collective decision making roles for a weekend. Or maybe | we can just advertise to all our volunteers that they are gaining critical | corporate team building and problem solving experience.
phaw. they're corporations that can afford staff team-building retreats. they don't need *my* shop, and my shop don't need their money.
| Another outreach tool!
i guess, but who are you reaching out to, and to what end?
- -bB