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British Legion vs. Nick Griffin

posted by [personal profile] purplecthulhu at 09:09am on 16/06/2009
Nick Griffin has been wearing the remembrance-day poppy rather a lot lately. The Royal British Legion don't like this and, after their private messages to him have achieved nothing, they're now going public.

Spread the word - this looks to be rather embaressing for the BNP, and might be an interesting issue in trademark law.

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posted by [identity profile] major-clanger.livejournal.com at 08:50am on 16/06/2009
Just wearing a poppy doesn't infringe the British Legion's trade mark in it, because the Remembrance Poppy is sold for the purposes of being worn. The BNP could not use the poppy mark by itself, however, as that would be separate new use. It also couldn't do anything that implied endorsement by the Royal British Legion.

Now you might suggest that just the act of Griffin wearing a Poppy outside the normal period (the three weeks before Remembrance Day) might of itself imply that he had some sort of endorsement from the Legion. I think that this lies behind the letter to him - he is making a very obvious point of associating himself with the RBL, who clearly don't want any association the other way to arise.
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