Logo lawsuit against Creighton

[tornado]

http://www.omaha.com/creighton/toronto-blue-jays-oppose-creighton-s-bid-to-trademark-logo/article_cf6df9ac-28ea-11e4-8b44-0017a43b2370.html

[Canton BU fan]

I agree with that claim. It looks similar.

[tornado]

seems like you can find similarity with a lot of logos...












Here's the Creighton & Toronto logos side by side....

[egib52]

I think Creighton should add a cottonwood leaf to the logo just to mock the Toronto Blue Jays.

It is a Blue Jay, how different can they make it? Some of these lawsuits are over the top, if it is dead on the same that is one thing, but there are distinct differences.

[SubGod22]

The Toronto logo shown above is the old one. The newer one looks a lot more like the Creighton logo.

[Da Coach]

The Toronto logo shown above is the old one. The newer one looks a lot more like the Creighton logo.

Actually, you have them reversed. The Toronto Blue Jays newest logo is the one shown above.

http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=tor

The Toronto Blue Jays are claiming that the new Creighton logo (adopted in October, 2013) is too similar to their trademarked logos, including the old logo which they have not used since 2011, but which they still own the copyright for.

http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2014-08-21/toronto-blue-jays-creighton-bluejays-logo-trademark-patent-letter-of-opposition

Here are the logos in this dispute-
The new Creighton Bluejays logo-



The current Toronto Blue Jay logo-



And the previous Toronto Blue Jay logo that was retired in 2011, and which is a bit more similar to the Creighton logo-




Here is the actual legal filing-

http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=91217791&pty=OPP&eno=1

IMO, there are similarities, but then how many different ways and colors can you draw a Blue Jay logo?
There are also many differences, such as they are facing opposite directions, and the beaks, eyes, and color patterns and shades are different. The old Toronto logo also incorporates the letter "J", which the Creighton logo does not, and the Creighton logo is accompanied by the name CREIGHTON. The new Toronto logo includes a baseball, a circle, and a red Maple Leaf behind the Blue Jay, along with the words Toronto Blue Jays. And note that Toronto spells it as 2 words BLUE JAYS, while Creighton spells their name as one word BLUEJAYS.
I do not see enough similarities, and there are way too many differences, IMO, to see how the Toronto Blue Jays claim can be upheld, but we'll see.

[SubGod22]

My bad. For the record, I think they should have stuck with the older one as I think it looks better than the new one. The apparent new one looks like something I would have expected to see years ago.

Still, it's the logo that they didn't post in the article that is at issue.