The Sicatoka

If appearance is nothing, why is NDUS Policy 308.4 concerned enough about it to specifically mention it. Optics do matter. These have been cleaned up.

UND has a guy on staff for such things. He's paid doing the TM or not, and the lawyer is always the biggest cost. (Now we'll find the lawyers here. )

From Port's chat with Armacost: Seems Armacost sees a now-resolved conflict.

I'm cringing ... we know 15 is out and the health of the D corps has been suspect all season ...

Standard, or did you splurge on the one with extra tin and cobalt?

I expect to hear you whistlin' all game.

@stoneySIOUXyou're renaming it already to "The Herb Stone Monument"? I barely got the TM paperwork in on "Sterns County Uses of Concrete Exposition Facility".

One action would've headed all of this off: In April 2020, after UND reviewed for trademarks, rather than finding none and assuming they were good, they should've taken the extra step and acquired the trademark then. To assume is to stage for failure.

We were tallying positives.

Failure? The State got transparency. UND got a free trademark.

Listen to the interview. Armacost expects Chaves to complete the investigation and report back. (General gonna General.) And I thought Port was a poor source.

I get your point, but please reconcile how a third place vote-getter is the answer.

70 years ago and today the answer is significantly different, so I get your point.

Did NODAK LLC every directly use the word in commerce or trade? The Uses reads ... exactly like a collegiate licensing agreement usage. Interesting coincidence.

Somebody should've TM'd it for us, with altruistic intentions of course,

Don't they have a "playing" Goldie for every sport?

Here's where I stand beside @iramurphy: My allegiance is to the University of North Dakota. Not some retired name.

Can I get $20 on the over?

"They" the LLC. "They" the owner and her counsel. Do I know if the LLC is more than one named owner? No.

If NODAK LLC "acknowledged the University's existing rights in the NODAK mark as the senior user", why'd they waste their time and money taking a junior or inferior position? What's to gain from that?

The State AG's office. The NDUS/SBHE offices. Next up will probably be the State Auditor (don't get between him and a camera). And the Legislature surely will not let this pass. Other than that, nobody.

Andy found out a week and a half ago after a call from NDUS/SBHE in Bismarck? Interesting.

Kinda cold and windy up there today ... ... oh, not the exterior roof, the roof/ceiling over the suites.

I'd take it in a heartbeat.

I wonder if "Drooling Wombats" is available. It'd be unique.