Modern Vespa

It's true:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Modern-Vespa-Embroidered-Patch-3-x-3-x-0-1-inches-Logo-Sew-Ironed-On-Badge-Embroidery-Applique-Patch/939493463

Quite a bit less on Ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/314416938275

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Oh, FFS.

Isn't it said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?

Now we've really hit the big time.

Pair with that 946 you thought you couldn't afford.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/6V-Vespa-Ride-On-Electric-Scooter-for-Kids-Pink/2377308865

Does Zelioni make carbon parts for it?

Isn't it stylish enough?

Stylish, sure. But is it fast?

Does it come with an ascot?

It's 6V! Of course it's fast!

Just wait til they have Jess action figures

Takedown notice for copyright infringement
https://www.copyright.gov/512/sample-notice.pdf

For eBay https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-policies/selling-policies/intellectual-property-vero-program?id=4349

Wal-Mart https://www.walmart.com/help/article/claims-of-intellectual-property-infringement/6171b9ac00384f3f920aa14a9c08bdac

Both have reporting forms on their website go for copyright violation over trademark unless trademark is registered. Registration not required though preferred for copyright.

Time to trademark the name if you haven't already, sue Wal-Mart, and retire a wealthy man in the Algarve lol

would be funny if vespa released an actual working (safe to use) pet carrier in the shape of a vespa

The seller's entire product range consists of other people's logos and brands. Most marketplaces are full of copyists like this. There's no putting the genie back in the bottle. Besides, copyright can't be argued for in this particular case.

Needless to say, the original patch was superior. See how the checked pattern continues under the red script? How the red script extends into the blue circle? And the text at the top of the patch is balanced by the url at the bottom?



Well let's just delete all that difficult stuff and copy what remains:

Trademarking something that contains the word "Vespa" and refers to scooters would be an exercise in futility. Even though I did, for the record, coin the phrase "Modern Vespa".

Agreed. I've always been puzzled by the changes in the counterfeit patch, actually. Dropping some of the white squares around the Vespa script makes it seem broken, and there are partial white squares missing from around the inside of the circle as well. It's like they were trying to make it look bad.

Or maybe that was their attempt at making it appear just different enough to avoid legal issues.

Actually you can argue copyright as a derivative work. https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf

Though it wouldn't be worth pursing beyond the procedures in the eBay and Walmart links. Copyright is automatic upon fixing in a tangible form so you don't even need a copyright notice.

Yeah, it certainly is a derivative work in its wording and its design arrangement. The checkerboard grid is even divided into the same number of units. But the main focus of both patches is a pre-existing logo belonging to a well known brand.

For the creator of the first patch to make a claim for copyright infringement on the second patch would require a great deal of brass neck, as we say in the UK.

So we're all People of Walmart?

Hmmm talk to the hand...


I get all my meat at the local meat market. Everyone who's anyone knows where that is.

That's pretty cool, I'll say.

Maybe you should copyright Modern Vespa.

Most likely ^^^ this. My wife is a graphic designer and she found a large department store chain's 'in-house' brand knocked off one of her prints. It was an obvious copy.

When she looked into legal options with a copyright lawyer she was told that the knockoff looked to be at least 15% different, which pretty much put them in the clear.

I expect Vespa would challenge that.

I think having coined a term that is used around the world, even by people who aren't on this forum, is an achievement. My friend David Cohen coined the word "cromulent" and it's almost my favorite thing about him.

Modern Vespa membership embiggens the mind.