{"id":2510,"date":"2005-12-07T16:43:53","date_gmt":"2005-12-07T16:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2005\/12\/07\/slave-to-the-buck\/"},"modified":"2005-12-07T16:43:53","modified_gmt":"2005-12-07T16:43:53","slug":"slave-to-the-buck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2510","title":{"rendered":"slave-to-the-buck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has ruled that <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory?id=1381101%22\">Sambucks sounds too similar to Starbuck&#8217;s Coffee<\/a>, and this violates the coffee chain&#8217;s trademark.  Let&#8217;s forget a second that Sam Buck is the owner&#8217;s actual name.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The court ruled that Buck abandoned her maiden name by getting married, but Rylander disagrees.<br \/>\n&quot;Women don&#8217;t abandon their maiden names,&quot; he said. &quot;They can still use them when they get married.&quot;<br \/>\nHe presented two witnesses who testified that Sam Buck is known to community members as just that, but their accounts were ignored in the court&#8217;s opinion, he said, providing possible grounds for an appeal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So many women use their maiden names these days. Rather, many refuse to drop their maiden name for their husband&#8217;s name.  Call it that stigma about being a man&#8217;s property.  Now it&#8217;s more recognized as a professional distinction or a personal choice.  The point is not every woman changes her name.  Strange how some courts fail to recognize this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has ruled that Sambucks sounds too similar to Starbuck&#8217;s Coffee, and this violates the coffee chain&#8217;s trademark. Let&#8217;s forget a second that Sam Buck is the owner&#8217;s actual name. The court ruled that Buck abandoned her maiden name by getting married, but Rylander disagrees. &quot;Women don&#8217;t abandon their maiden names,&quot; he said. &quot;They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}