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...Stewart, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and SmartMoney editor-at-large, recounted spending Valentine’s Day alone in Arkansas while tracking down a story...
Last night, Harvard Law School graduates James B. Stewart Jr., Jeffrey R. Toobin ’82, and Lis W. Wiehl gave a no-holds barred assessment of life as a legal journalist in a panel discussion called “Covering the Story: Lawyers in the World of Journalism...
That community feeling may well be part of what enticed Martha Stewart to buy a 152-acre (62 hectare) estate on the edge of town seven years ago. She later spent five months of house arrest there, and her company recently launched a furniture line named Katonah. But when the company moved to trademark the name Katonah for the furniture and a long list of other household goods last year, residents fought back. A February meeting--which featured Martha-made cookies--didn't prompt a withdrawal of the application, so the Katonah Village Improvement Society (KVIS) and two businesses filed...
Throughout it all, Stewart's company maintained it was only doing what any smart business would: trademarking a brand to provide better legal recourse should knockoffs pop up. After all, the lawyers said, no one protests Philadelphia cream cheese. But the people of Katonah, especially business owners, saw something sinister afoot in the attempt to trademark Katonah for dozens and dozens of product categories, from lamps to curtain rods to belt racks. After all, many of the village's shops, such as Katonah Yarn and Katonah Architectural Hardware, use the name. Could Stewart's company someday prevent a townsperson from...
...Katonah claimed victory--of a sort. After months of negotiation, Stewart's company withdrew its trademark application in all categories except for four: furniture, pillows, mirrors and chair pads. "I guess that's workable," said Jim Raneri, a co-owner of Charles department store, housed in one of the buildings that made the Move back in 1897. Others in town were more dubious. "I have a hunch, give her an inch, she'll take a mile," said Tom Kiley, a co-owner of the photo shop Katonah Image. Yet for any town that's ever fought a giant, the result...