Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...include up to 300 inns by 1989, will offer rooms that are 30% smaller than standard hotel accommodations. It will have no meeting centers or restaurants. The cost: $20 to $29 a night. A McDonald's spokeswoman said the company has yet to decide whether to sue for trademark infringement...
That warning was a sign of the Communist regime's growing awareness of the importance of trademark and patent protection, especially among potential foreign investors. China's trademark law only took effect in 1982, and enforcement has been spotty at best. The latest finger pointing at unauthorized mouseketeers was a significant indication that the government was trying to take its rules more seriously...
...younger Guccione started Spin two years ago with a $500,000 loan from his father, but maintained editorial independence and was the sole owner of the Spin trademark. Off to a promising start, Spin has built a circulation of 150,000 and become a respectable challenger to its archrival Rolling Stone (circ. 400,000). But the elder Guccione, whose company has taken about $3 million in losses on Spin, wanted to assume authority over the magazine by making it part of the Penthouse business. His son refused to give up control and now hopes to keep Spin alive with backing...
...etches the opposite but equally crazy ways in which two sisters react to their mother's death and their father's potential remarriage. An explicit tribute to the quasi-supernatural stories of Henry James and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Heartstones also makes full use of Rendell's own trademark chill, a slide-under-the-microsc ope dispassion that permits all sorts of behavior but forgives nothing. No other living mystery writer complains more openly about the burden of fans expecting her to bring back series characters when she has other pursuits in mind. In A Dark-Adapted Eye and Heartstones...
Perhaps the city's most famous restaurant name is Bookbinders, the seafood house where snapper (as in turtle) soup became a trademark. There are two Bookbinders: the Old Original, in its historic 1865 setting, and Bookbinders 15th Street, owned by the founding family. Alas, neither has much to recommend it, but for those with a taste for tradition, the latter is the better...