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Katrina Trademark

The Smoking Gun has the smoking gun.
With dead bodies still floating in the streets of New Orleans, a pair of Louisiana lawyers are seeking to cash in on the killer hurricane by slapping the name Katrina on alcoholic beverages. In a new filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Andrew Vicknair and Harold Ehrenberg provided federal officials with a logo--reproduced above--bearing the word Katrina, the phrase "Get Blown Away," and a small satellite image of the deadly storm.

The trademark application was filed on September 4, just six days after the hurricane slammed into the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1000 residents and leaving thousands homeless. The filing by Vicknair, 31, and the 47-year-old Ehrenberg--both of whom are graduates of New Orleans-based Loyola University's law school--does not detail what kind of booze products will bear the Katrina name. But it's a safe bet that these wannabe profiteers are plotting some variation on The Hurricane, the Bourbon Street staple.
The Smoking Gun website is owned by Courtroom Television Network LLC, of Court TV fame, so hopefully they've done some background research on these lawyers, who might just be representing the sleaziest clients in The Big Easy. If there's any justice, their trademark application will get blown away.
Posted by abnu on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 @ 4:53 PM [ + ]

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