{"id":14145,"date":"2010-02-22T09:49:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T17:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14145"},"modified":"2010-02-22T14:47:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T22:47:49","slug":"burton-sued-by-car-freshner-corp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14145","title":{"rendered":"Burton Sued By Car-Freshner Corp."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/greentree.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/greentree.jpg','popup','width=130,height=215,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/greentree-tm.jpg\" height=\"165\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Greentree\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.little-trees.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Car-Freshner Corp<\/a><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong>, the company that makes the little trees that hang from people&#8217;s review mirrors and soak up that dank weedy smell, has filed a trademark infringement suit against <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Burton Snowboards<\/a><\/strong> according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20100220\/NEWS03\/302209984\" target=\"_blank\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Car-Freshner claims that the company offers a line of five &#8220;Fix&#8221; snowboards using the allegedly unauthorized tree design and that it has sold the boards through its Web site and at <strong>Sports Authority<\/strong>, <strong>Zumiez<\/strong> and <strong>Ski Co<\/strong>. stores in the Syracuse area. . . The Watertown company is asking a judge to, among other things, order Burton to recall and stop selling the disputed boards. It also is asking for an unspecified amount of damages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hard to believe anyone would mistake a snowboard for an air-freshner. . . but anything is possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20100220\/NEWS03\/302209984\" target=\"_blank\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Car-Freshner Corp., the company that makes the little trees that hang from people&#8217;s review mirrors and soak up that dank weedy smell, has filed a trademark infringement suit against Burton Snowboards according to a story in the Watertown Daily Times. Car-Freshner claims that the company offers a line of five &#8220;Fix&#8221; snowboards using the allegedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14145"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14165,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14145\/revisions\/14165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}