{"id":24228,"date":"2011-12-05T06:02:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T13:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/kale-is-not-chikin.html"},"modified":"2011-12-05T06:54:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T13:54:04","slug":"kale-is-not-chikin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/kale-is-not-chikin.html","title":{"rendered":"Kale is not &quot;Chikin&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I understand the need to vigorously protect one&#39;s trademarks, but this strikes me as the lawyers at Chick-fil-A trying to justify their corporate existence.  These shirts (a) aren&#39;t sold where the restaurant exists, (b) aren&#39;t using the distinctive logo or images (or even parodies of them) that CfA does, and (c) use correct spelling.<\/p>\n<p>Bad, big company.  Bad!  No nugget for you! #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fgraphics8.nytimes.com%2Fimages%2F2011%2F12%2F05%2Fus%2FKALE%2FKALE-articleLarge.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/05\/us\/eat-more-kale-t-shirts-challenged-by-chick-fil-a.html?_r=1&#038;src=tp'>\u2018Eat More Kale\u2019 T-Shirts Challenged by Chick-fil-A<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA tiny Vermont T-shirt business has drawn a legal warning from the Chick-fil-A chain over shirts that say \u201cEat More Kale.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I understand the need to vigorously protect one&#39;s trademarks, but this strikes me as the lawyers at Chick-fil-A trying to justify their corporate existence. These shirts (a) aren&#39;t sold where the restaurant exists, (b) aren&#39;t using the distinctive logo or images (or even parodies of them) that CfA does, and (c) use correct spelling. 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