Dick Bavetta

[Getting Traded]

A little lesson on trademarks.

If you don't enforce your trademark you lose it. You know a grocery store is using your likeness in an ad and don't do anything about it and you lose your billion dollar trademark rights to your own image. Next thing you know Microsoft is using Jordan's image without his permission and there's nothing he can do about it.

EM is a huge dumbass.

Yeah EM when Dal asks if you're real it's because you're curious and he's never seen a curious person before. Holy **** how clueless can you be?

Yeah, well, his comment was sarcastic, so how am I supposed to respond? Ok, so his name is his trademark. I guess in this litigious, capitalist system you can justify it. But that's the problem with our society. It's so litigious and so self-centered. You really think Microsoft or any company is going to start using his name to sell their products? What they did was improper, agreed. But even one judge said he was making a mountain out of a molehill. I still say it was an ******* move.

 

[Gameface]

Yeah, well, his comment was sarcastic, so how am I supposed to respond? Ok, so his name is his trademark. I guess in this litigious, capitalist system you can justify it. But that's the problem with our society. It's so litigious and so self-centered. You really think Microsoft or any company is going to start using his name to sell their products? What they did was improper, agreed. But even one judge said he was making a mountain out of a molehill. I still say it was an ******* move.

Good for you.

How would it be to see the world through the eyes of a 6 year old?

 

[Getting Traded]

A little lesson on trademarks.

If you don't enforce your trademark you lose it. You know a grocery store is using your likeness in an ad and don't do anything about it and you lose your billion dollar trademark rights to your own image. Next thing you know Microsoft is using Jordan's image without his permission and there's nothing he can do about it.

EM is a huge dumbass.

Yeah EM when Dal asks if you're real it's because you're curious and he's never seen a curious person before. Holy **** how clueless can you be?

After reviewing this page, I'm surprised Jordan won his case:

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/enforcing-trademark-rights-29902.html

 

[Getting Traded]

See this from that page about being awarded damages from someone using your trademark:

How to Stop Others From Using a Trademark

Typically, you begin by sending a letter, called a "cease and desist letter," to the wrongful ("infringing") user, demanding that it stop using the mark.

If the wrongful user continues to infringe the mark, you can file a lawsuit to stop the improper use. The lawsuit is usually filed in federal court if the mark is used in more than one state or country, and in state court if the dispute is between purely local marks.

In addition to preventing further use of the mark, you can sometimes obtain money damages from the wrongful user.
Damages for Trademark Infringement

If you can prove in federal court that the infringing use is likely to confuse consumers and that the business has suffered economically as a result of the infringement, the infringer may have to pay you money damages based on the loss.

If the court finds that the infringer intentionally copied your trademark, or at least should have known about the existing trademark, the infringer may have to give up the profits it made by using the mark as well as pay other damages, such as punitive damages, fines, or attorney fees.

On the other hand, if your business has not been damaged, a court has discretion to allow the other company to continue to use the trademark under limited circumstances that are designed to avoid consumer confusion.

 

[Getting Traded]

Bavetta kissing *** during his HOF interview; says Charles Barkley kisses better than his wife (I know it was a joke but it didn't come across as funny) -- didn't realize he was inducted this year or that he never missed a game in 39 years spanning 2,635 regular season games and 270 playoff games. An incredible record. I still wonder though.

https://www.nba.com/video/channels/hall_of_fame/2015/04/06/20150406-nichols-bavetta-hof-interview.nba/

 

[Cappy_Smurf]

Anyone who says it wasn't a blatant push off is definitely in denial.

Lol. You're delusional. That's the very definition of incidental contact. Russell's own momentum took him backwards, not the hand of MJ. Denial is what I was in when it happened, and I thought we got screwed on the call. We didn't. Incidental contact. The end. If that play had happened at any other time in the game, nobody would even remember it. The only reason anybody still complains about it, is because of their emotion at the time clouding their judgment, thus preventing them from having an objective opinion. Like I said, gripe about the Eisley and Harper calls that legitimately screwed us, and forget about what would have been a ticky tack foul to end the game.

 

[Getting Traded]

Lol. You're delusional. That's the very definition of incidental contact. Russell's own momentum took him backwards, not the hand of MJ. Denial is what I was in when it happened, and I thought we got screwed on the call. We didn't. Incidental contact. The end. If that play had happened at any other time in the game, nobody would even remember it. The only reason anybody still complains about it, is because of their emotion at the time clouding their judgment, thus preventing them from having an objective opinion. Like I said, gripe about the Eisley and Harper calls that legitimately screwed us, and forget about what would have been a ticky tack foul to end the game.

Watch the bleepin video in slow-mo. Jordan follows through with a push to the side of Russell's hip and you see Russell moved directly in line with the motion of Jordan's hand / arm.

 

[Getting Traded]

Lol. You're delusional. That's the very definition of incidental contact. Russell's own momentum took him backwards, not the hand of MJ. Denial is what I was in when it happened, and I thought we got screwed on the call. We didn't. Incidental contact. The end. If that play had happened at any other time in the game, nobody would even remember it. The only reason anybody still complains about it, is because of their emotion at the time clouding their judgment, thus preventing them from having an objective opinion. Like I said, gripe about the Eisley and Harper calls that legitimately screwed us, and forget about what would have been a ticky tack foul to end the game.

Simce when is using your hands on offense to get open incidental contact. Yeah, they let guys do it, a lot, like Iverson who used to do it with his forearm. But it's a foul and should be called because it's anything but incidental -- IT'S INTENTIONAL.

 

[Getting Traded]

Good for you.

How would it be to see the world through the eyes of a 6 year old?

I'm a lot older than you -- try senior citizen -- and just because I don't like the way our society has evolved, with its total emphasis on money and material things doesn't make me immature. I would say the reverse. You're entitled to your opinion, but you don't have to act like an adolescent ******* about it.

 

[Maneesh]

I'm a lot older than you -- try senior citizen -- and just because I don't like the way our society has evolved, with its total emphasis on money and material things doesn't make me immature. I would say the reverse. You're entitled to your opinion, but you don't have to act like an adolescent ******* about it.

i didn't know this. Maybe this is why you can be so rude me? Even when I try to become friend to you?
You are real grouch!

I can't like Rick Babette when I see him always favors other teams . I can't do it!

 

[Hotdog]

I'm a lot older than you -- try senior citizen -- and just because I don't like the way our society has evolved, with its total emphasis on money and material things doesn't make me immature. I would say the reverse. You're entitled to your opinion, but you don't have to act like an adolescent ******* about it.

Gameface is a dick!!

 

[RandyForRubio]

99% sure I'm right on this one.

 

[The Midnight]

Wow you sounded like Hannibal Lector when he helped Ralph Fiennes tracked down the Edward Norton character in the Red Dragon...

 

[Gameface]

I'm a lot older than you -- try senior citizen -- and just because I don't like the way our society has evolved, with its total emphasis on money and material things doesn't make me immature. I would say the reverse. You're entitled to your opinion, but you don't have to act like an adolescent ******* about it.

You're probably the single most frustrating poster for me. You talk past and around the people trying to have a discussion with you. You are even more clueless than One Love, which is pretty ****ing monumental.

Congratulations on managing to get to a mature age being as bat **** crazy as you are.

 

[Getting Traded]

You're probably the single most frustrating poster for me. You talk past and around the people trying to have a discussion with you. You are even more clueless than One Love, which is pretty ****ing monumental.

Congratulations on managing to get to a mature age being as bat **** crazy as you are.

And you are a very unarticulate individual. You call me names but don't explain why I am clueless or bat bleep crazy. I don't see myself talking past and around people. I am very direct. Like now. When it comes to the trademark issue, I looked it up and posted information written by an attorney expert in the matter. And if you read it carefully, you will see that Jordan was fortunate to have the ruling in his favor. I don't want to go into detail about it, but read it and you will see for yourself.

 

[NAOS]

And you are a very unarticulate individual. You call me names but don't explain why I am clueless or bat bleep crazy. I don't see myself talking past and around people. I am very direct. Like now. When it comes to the trademark issue, I looked it up and posted information written by an attorney expert in the matter. And if you read it carefully, you will see that Jordan was fortunate to have the ruling in his favor. I don't want to go into detail about it, but read it and you will see for yourself.

*inarticulate

 

[Getting Traded]

i didn't know this. Maybe this is why you can be so rude me? Even when I try to become friend to you?
You are real grouch!

I can't like Rick Babette when I see him always favors other teams . I can't do it!

I never thought I was rude or a grouch, but maybe not as friendly as you would like. I have repeatedly told you that I have no animosity towards you and that I simply post my opinions. I don't think I have any "friends" here on the site. Just my personality, I guess.

 

[Getting Traded]

*inarticulate

Thank you for the correction.

 

[Miggs]

Eenie, do you have Aspergers?

POTY.

 

[Miggs]

well there are plenty of bigger dicks

I see you fondly remember our night together.

xoxoxo