Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest defendant in the German war against "unfair competition" is Wisconsin-based clothier Lands? End. The charge? That Lands? End?s unlimited money-back guarantee ? inviting consumers to return any of the company?s products, at any time, for any reason ? is illegal under German laws purported to protect consumers from companies that distort their prices with offers of freebies. In this case, says TIME Berlin correspondent Charles Wallace, "an unlimited guarantee is a gift of something of value unconnected to the product. This sort of ?giveaway? is outlawed in Germany because the government claims it clouds price transparency...
...attorneys have recommended that in order to protect ourselves against unauthorized uses of the Harvard name...we try to register all trademarks that are not president and fellows as president and fellows," Calixto says...
...There is a simple contract that says that we can't print anything that shames the Harvard name," Leiter says. "The trademark office is basically concerned with helping us protect the Harvard name. They have no review...
...helps them protect their trademarks," Calixto says. "They have to acknowledge that we own the name, and then we license it back...
...Committee to Protect Journalists--of which Kovach is a board member--may send an observer to the trial. It has been aware of the case from the beginning and has already sent letters of protest--but received no responses...