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Trademarks & T-shirts

Posted by jtile on 3/6/2009 at 11:46 AM ET 25 Points
I am looking at creating a fun T-Shirt for a Tile company to give out to their contractor customers.

We are thinking of doing "Oscar the Grout" - showing a graphic of Oscar the Grouch in his trash can, holding a grout float/trowel and maybe a could pieces of tile.

Is this completely illegal due to him being a trademarked character?

Anyone have further info or a resource I can look into?
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  • Posted by CarolBlaha on 3/6/2009 at 11:49 AM Accepted
    Oh yeah! I had a friend who's name was Ernie and used Ernie on his logo and they were on him like white on rice!

    But I love the slogan!
  • Posted by jtile on 3/6/2009 at 11:50 AM Author
    I am wondering if we use a graphic that is similar, but not created by Sesame Street we can get away with it???
  • Posted by jtile on 3/6/2009 at 12:21 PM Author
    I was afraid of that... will keep brainstorming... Just needed the validation that my idea wouldn't work.
  • Posted by jtile on 3/6/2009 at 4:21 PM Author
    :)

    Thank you everyone. I really just wanted to make sure there wasn't a loop hole out there that would make it okay... it was going to be so fun!

    Putting the brainstorming cap back on...
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