Taco Tuesday has been freed from the shackles of trademark law!

  • @21Cabbage
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    212 years ago

    One of my favorite bars had a framed letter on the wall from Taco John’s explaining why they have to call their weekly taco special something else.

    • @Astroturfed
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      32 years ago

      That’s a super low bar. I haven’t tried my dogs turds, but I’d still give dog turd like 20% chance of being better than most taco bell items.

  • @Sendbeer
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    142 years ago

    Taco John’s should be able to pick one of the bells slogans now… Think outside the bun… run for the border… Live Mas…

    It’s only fair.

  • @captainlezbian
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    102 years ago

    How is this even trademarkable? It’s like associating light tan with a lumber company. Yeah no everyone already does this, you aren’t preventing customer confusion by enforcing it, you’re just blocking competition from doing something obvious that’s part of the cultural association with the product not the brand. Like isn’t that literally how you lose a trademark?

    • @postmateDumbass
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      82 years ago

      It’s like associating light tan with a lumber company.

      Wut?

      It would be like “2×4 thursday”

      • tal
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        12 years ago

        Maybe it’s phone autocorrect and it was supposed to be “leather” or something?

  • @[email protected]
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    82 years ago

    NBA superstar LeBron James petitioned to trademark Taco Tuesday in 2019, but was denied, and has since appeared in a Taco Bell commercial advocating for universal use of the phrase.

    Ha ha ha what?

  • @Gingerlegs
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    72 years ago

    I respect them taking this approach

  • @[email protected]
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    72 years ago

    Taco John’s is asking Taco Bell to match its $100-per-restaurant donation to the nonprofit Children of Restaurant Employees, or CORE.

    I hope Taco Bell matches this since they get to save on the legal fees. This would make this good news all around. Except that apparently the trademark is still held by Gregory Hotels Inc in New Jersey, so not fully in the clear yet!

    • pizza_rolls
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      42 years ago

      They should have just trademarked the rest of the days of the week for tacos