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Law Practice

Aug. 1, 2012

Flames, fanfare and... filings for infringement

The USOC should come clean about the "true nature" of the Olympic brand, over which Congress has so graciously granted a monopoly. By Elisabeth Moriarty of Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP


I am a complete sap when it comes to the Olympic Games, and have been since I was an uncoordinated, bespectacled suburban kid with bad depth perception and a penchant for getting injured at seemingly innocuous backyard games like badminton and kickball. While I'm relatively indifferent when it comes to sports generally, there's something about the nations of the world coming together, even for a brief moment, in a global spirit of cooperation - it's uplifting, ...

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