David vs Goliath "Martini Lounge Radio" Trademark Fight

[Martini Lounge Lizard]

Havertown’s Tom Kelly (was granted the trademark) in 2009, but now four years later, it looks like AOL might take it all away.

It turns out that AOL has its own Martini Lounge internet radio channel, which, just like Kelly’s, plays a heck of a lot of Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. Kelly, whose station streams via iRadioPhilly.com, found out about the AOL station when a friend told him, “Hey, I heard you guys on AOL.” He looked up AOL’s station and then fired off a demand letter to the internet conglomerate to protect his trademark, telling them to back off.

But instead of backing off, AOL filed a petition for cancellation with the USPTO, claiming that Kelly’s trademark should be invalidated because AOL’s commercial use of name “Martini Lounge” predated Kelly’s.

http://www.phillymag.com/news/2013/11/04/aol-martini-lounge-radio-trademark-dispute/

 

[quadpain]

AOL is trying to take our trademark for Martini Lounge Radio. Help us stop the bully.

http://www.iradiophilly.com/savemartinilounge.php

http://change.org/petitions/aol-drop-its-cancellation-effort-of-the-trademark-martini-lounge-radio

- Al Clay

 

[Silkie]

More like AOL has slipped increasingly into irrelevancy, and this is something else they can run into the ground on their way down.

 

[Unregistered]

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AOL is trying to take our trademark for Martini Lounge Radio. Help us stop the bully.

http://www.iradiophilly.com/savemartinilounge.php

http://change.org/petitions/aol-drop-its-cancellation-effort-of-the-trademark-martini-lounge-radio

- Al Clay

Then you should of kept the signal on the air, either with a translator, or on 1340, or trying to gain another frequency, instead of bailing out and leaving the area without a Standards Station, your bad....