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LAWYERS AND TREES

“A new environment organisation [the Australian Environment Foundation] launched on the weekend,” emails Jennifer Marohasy. “It was with some trepidation because the Friday before we got a letter from Australian Conservation Foundation solicitors claiming trademark infringement.”

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Posted by Tim B. on 06/08/2005 at 11:11 AM

  1. Jen, they should be laughed out of court.

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2005 06 08 at 12:34 PM • permalink

  2. While the names have two similar (yet generic) words, the emblems couldn’t get any different unless you stuck a guy with a gun on there.

    Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 06 08 at 01:13 PM • permalink

  3. I was thinking more along the lines of a chainsaw…

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2005 06 08 at 01:30 PM • permalink

  4. Somewhere there’s a mother who sent her son to law school. She must be thinking, “Why couldn’t he have been a street mime or something?”

    Posted by ErnieG on 2005 06 08 at 01:35 PM • permalink

  5. Mr. Bingley: I was thinking more along the lines of a chainsaw…

    Or one of those Tennessee trencher things.

    Posted by Achillea on 2005 06 08 at 03:48 PM • permalink

  6. Habitat for Humanity International is suing spinoff Building Habitat Inc. for trademark infringement.  Charity is about money today.  For St. Augustine, charity meant thinking the best of the other guy rather than the worst, but heaven has raised the bar to cash only.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2005 06 08 at 04:53 PM • permalink

  7. Sue! sue! sue! - there’s no doubt AEF will win and get costs - all those luverly charity $$$ ending up in AEF coffers.

    Posted by rog2 on 2005 06 08 at 05:21 PM • permalink

  8. Will the Australian Conservation Foundation embark on a war of attrition? Or will they adopt a scorched Earth tactic?

    Posted by Henry boy on 2005 06 08 at 05:32 PM • permalink

  9. I was born Tim Maguire. How much do you figure Tom Maguire’s got?

    Unless he’s a deep pocket, forget it.

    Posted by tim maguire on 2005 06 08 at 06:11 PM • permalink

  10. I’ll bet the Conservation Council of Australia will be furious when they hear about this.  So will the Council of Australian Conservation, the Environment Foundation of Australia and the Foundation for the Australian Environment.

    Posted by murph on 2005 06 08 at 07:11 PM • permalink

  11. “Are you the Judean People’s Front”? “No! we’re the People’s Front of Judea”! “Splitters”!

    Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 06 08 at 07:54 PM • permalink

  12. The Australian Conservation Foundation is nothing but a front group for the labor party.

    Posted by Evil Pundit on 2005 06 08 at 11:35 PM • permalink

  13. Quick!  While they’re all in one place!  Send in the giant East German Rototiller….!

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 06 09 at 12:20 AM • permalink

  14. If we followed Shakespeare’s advice and really killed all the lawyers, how many forests do you suppose we’d save?

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2005 06 09 at 03:23 PM • permalink

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