Georgia Lottery wins ruling in $5 million trademark dispute

Comment #16

time*treat — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:33:57 GMT

... Allegedly ... to promote the progress of science and useful arts

U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8

Comment #15

rdgrnr — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:06:48 GMT

Good point Tenaj.

The state was apparently covering all the bases for a little overkill.

Comment #14

Tenaj — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:29:05 GMT

The court also said that Kyle and Mankovitch had failed to legally establish trademark rights for their logo.

Not taking sides with the state but with this against them too didn't help

Comment #13

LANTERN — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:33:43 GMT

it sounds like something that a king would say, like maybe King George of England and or Henry VIII of England.

Governments and monarchies are well known for being rotten.

Men in black from the government have been here many times and I always (so far) drive them of with shotguns, machine guns, grenades, biological, chemical and radiation weapons. next I am thinking about cold fusion bombs, oops! Did I say all of that? Sorry my computer is doing the typing all by itself, I think that it ha... [ More ]

Comment #12

JAP69 — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:56:27 GMT

May just come a day when you could get in trouble for sying that.

Happy Thanksgiving TnTicketlosers.

Comment #11

JAP69 — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:52:38 GMT

Heres to Ga lottery. BOOOOOOOOOH,BOOOOOOOOOH,BOOOOOOOOOH,BOOOOOOOOOH

Comment #10

CLETU$ — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:27:20 GMT

What's the point of having Trademark laws if the courts are going to rule against you

Comment #9

ChaosX — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:38:49 GMT

I had to look up sovereign immunity. It's only meant to be applied to States and the Federal Gov't as far as I can tell. (Tribes as well

Comment #8

psykomo — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:30:45 GMT

PSYKOMO would quote Mel Fisher TODAY's the DAY

when I first started to post on Lottery Post. L@@K at some of my ole

post anddddddddddddddddddduuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuwillseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

After many post by psykomoooooooooooooooooooooo using Mel's quote

the Georgia Lottery put TODAY's the DAY on their commercial's and still

use this phrase !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS PROVED 2ME the Georgia Lottery reads read and still

c... [ More ]

Comment #7

RJOh — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:26:17 GMT

Sounds like Georgia has no respect for Americans intellectual property same as China.

Comment #6

TheRightPrice — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:57:35 GMT

Sovereign Immunity I don't like that word.

Last time I checked, the only person shielded by Sovereign Immunity was God and dead people.

Comment #5

rdgrnr — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:49:32 GMT

Happy Thanksgiving, TTL

Comment #4

dpoly1 — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:47:20 GMT

Happy Thanksgiving ! Clinging to my Constitution, Guns Religion !

Well, I'm from Pennsylvania I guess I probably lost the winning ticket ...............

Comment #3

TnTicketlosers — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:44:26 GMT

Happy Thanksgiving

Comment #2

TnTicketlosers — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:43:48 GMT

I want to say something but I might get in trouble.

Comment #1

rdgrnr — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:38:23 GMT

...the state Supreme Court on Monday said the Georgia Lottery is shielded from liability by sovereign immunity.

There's a precedent for ya, sovereign immunity.

Looks like the state can pretty much do whatever the hell they want from now on.

Georgia Lottery wins ruling in $5 million trademark dispute

Lottery Post — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:08:42 GMT

The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled against two men who sought $5 million in damages from the Georgia Lottery Corporation in a lawsuit over the MONEYBAGS$ logo.

The suit was filed by George Kyle, who obtained a registered trademark for the MONEYBAG$ logo and game in 1995, and Frank Mankovitch, whom Kyle had been given the exclusive right to market the game. The logo consisted of a velvet pouch containing wooden tiles.

From 1999 to 2002, the Georgia Lottery obtained approval to use Kyle's t... [ More ]