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Post by catamountalum04 on Oct 13, 2024 13:53:13 GMT -5
I know on the podcast Mike Taylor said WCU does not have a trademark on The Cats. Any reason they could not get one? Also who decides if we do The Cats or the cat head?
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Post by retiredcat on Oct 13, 2024 15:40:16 GMT -5
Unfortunately, The Cats logo was not copy righted/licensed when it was originally designed in 1971 and was used by Gardner-Webb (The Dogs)...I think they use The Dawgs now) and a couple other schools. The original logo, which is exactly like the one we use now, was developed on my office (sports information) desk after the 1970 season. Don Powers, our defensive coordinator, and I collaborated on the design. We had not used a logo on our helmets for many years in the 50s and 60s. We started scribbling on notebook paper about 9:00 pm one night and took it to Coach Waters the next day. He liked it but wanted it to be a little thicker and a bit more scripty. I took it to Ray Seay Advertising in Waynesville and he had a group in Knoxville make a helmet logo (stick on type) and a bumper sticker. We didn't think about legally protecting it until it was too late. So that's the story of how The Cats helmet logo was born.
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Post by LCACAT on Oct 14, 2024 7:28:50 GMT -5
Last year Davidson had "The Cats" in script on their helmets. It was alnost exactly the same. Montana State has Cats in script on their helmets at times. It's a shame we didn't copyright it.
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Post by retiredcat on Oct 14, 2024 8:19:32 GMT -5
Never thought that someone else might like it and use it...I was probably still shell shocked from Vietnam. Got a little bit smarter as I got older.
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Post by robertleemadison on Oct 16, 2024 14:42:40 GMT -5
Unfortunately, The Cats logo was not copy righted/licensed when it was originally designed in 1971 and was used by Gardner-Webb (The Dogs)...I think they use The Dawgs now) and a couple other schools. The original logo, which is exactly like the one we use now, was developed on my office (sports information) desk after the 1970 season. Don Powers, our defensive coordinator, and I collaborated on the design. We had not used a logo on our helmets for many years in the 50s and 60s. We started scribbling on notebook paper about 9:00 pm one night and took it to Coach Waters the next day. He liked it but wanted it to be a little thicker and a bit more scripty. I took it to Ray Seay Advertising in Waynesville and he had a group in Knoxville make a helmet logo (stick on type) and a bumper sticker. We didn't think about legally protecting it until it was too late. So that's the story of how The Cats helmet logo was born. The same thing happened to Tuscola High School. The Yosef Mountaineer at Crappy State was taken from the 1947 Waynesville Mountaineer yearbook (Prior to Tuscola which formed in 1966) and was used for years by Waynesville Township High School and later Tuscola High School. Somewhere around the 1990's Oz College decided to start using it and the filed the Copyright with the US Copyright office. It is an exact replica of the Waynesville one down to every detail. About four years ago Tweetsie Tech sent Tuscola High School a Cease and Desist letter for Tuscola's Mountaineer mascot that they said they now owned. After the Court system got done and the Haywood County School System rolled over, like they always do, App demanded that Tuscola remove it from all signage,Athletic facilities, (including fields and scoreboards,) basketball gym floor, etc. Just another reason to hate Watauga Tech. |
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Post by Catback on Oct 17, 2024 22:05:19 GMT -5
I like The Cats on the helmets. Easily read on TV and photos and its a clean, classy look. Please keep it!
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