{"id":2185,"date":"2008-12-28T22:53:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T06:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2008-12-28T22:53:19","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T06:53:19","slug":"battling-ampersands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=2185","title":{"rendered":"battling ampersands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abercrombiekent.com\/\">Abercrombie &amp; Kent<\/a>, a travel agency that uses a Times Roman ampersand as a trademark, sued <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andbeyond.com\/\">andBEYOND<\/a>, a travel agency, not for the tacky capitalization but for using a Gill Sans ampersand as a trademark.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt that such a suit would succeed if the marks in question were very different graphic treatments of the same letter, say an angular S forming a thunderbolt <i>versus<\/i> a more stolid sort of S in a ring.  How different would the newcomer\u2019s mark need to be, and is the necessary difference greater for quasi-letters such as ampersand?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abercrombie &amp; Kent, a travel agency that uses a Times Roman ampersand as a trademark, sued andBEYOND, a travel agency, not for the tacky capitalization but for using a Gill Sans ampersand as a trademark. I doubt that such a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=2185\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-heraldry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}