New Slogan

[oldtoiletsmkgdflrpots]

I wasn't attempting to be funny.

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

Marblecake, I stand corrected. Red, the coiner of the phrase, did want it to remain in the public domain so that it would belong to all of us; it was the people who trademarked it (and doing so after the creator said publicly that it should be in the public domain is dishonorable and, I thought, illegal, but perhaps not that - certainly it is the very antithesis of what "Keep Austin Weird" stands for) who stole it from the rest of us by trademarking it and defending that trademark. Red went so far as to file a challenge with the U.S. Trademark Office seeking to keep it for the rest of us.

Interesting article, it was from 2002. Does anyone know what happened with the trademark disupute?

A trademark search http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield...006:3ah54n.2.1 does show that a trademark has been issued for:
"Goods and Services IC 025. US 022 039. G & S: caps and shirts, namely, t-shirts, polos, sweatshirts. FIRST USE: 20011001. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20011001"
Registration Date October 21, 2003
Owner (REGISTRANT) NOBONZ, INC CORPORATION TEXAS 3710 Judson Road Austin TEXAS 78744

[ILikeSmartHippies]

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

make sure people know what it really means

except.. no one knows what "keep austin weird" really means??

[TexasHorseLady]

Sure. Red does. Did you go to the original Keep Austin Weird website that I linked to?

[sxrckr]

Texas already uses that.

[oldtoiletsmkgdflrpots]

Has Red been heard from since? And if so, what does he say now?

[TexasHorseLady]

Originally Posted by oldtoiletsmkgdflrpots

Has Red been heard from since? And if so, what does he say now?

Did you not go to the link to the original Keep Austin Weird website that I keep posting in these threads? That's Red's website, and he's quite clear there on what he says now. He also has a recent book out - you can see info about it on the website or you can flip through it at BookPeople (and likely any other bookstore) to see what he says.

Yes, he's been heard from since. Almost continuously, since years before the folks stole the saying and went commercial with it (which, as said, proves that they really don't get it).

[oldtoiletsmkgdflrpots]

I did but maybe I better turn my no script off or something because I missed whatever it was I was suppose to get. I'll try again. Sorry.

[Jennibc]

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

Did you not go to the link to the original Keep Austin Weird website that I keep posting in these threads? That's Red's website, and he's quite clear there on what he says now. He also has a recent book out - you can see info about it on the website or you can flip through it at BookPeople (and likely any other bookstore) to see what he says.

Yes, he's been heard from since. Almost continuously, since years before the folks stole the saying and went commercial with it (which, as said, proves that they really don't get it).

I did and I really like his prototype for new shirt, the one that has the big registered trademark symbol on the front and says, "Trademark This expletives" on the back