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Article: BATTLE OF THE BANDONS FERMENTS.(Business)(Tillamook creamery's trademark claim cheeses off coastal Coos County town)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- December 18, 2003
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Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard
BANDON - Let's be clear about two things:
First, Bandon's Kettle Korn By the Sea does not make cheese.
Second, the Bandon Cheese company does make cheese. But not in Bandon.
Confused? So is David Nevitt. He makes kettle corn out of his house on the outskirts of this coastal town. A few weeks back, he got a letter from the Bandon Cheese Company informing him that the company has trademarked the name Bandon, and that he'd need to make a "content change" in his product - to avoid confusion with Bandon Cheese.
Nevitt does, incidentally, sell kettle corn in the Bandon Cheese retail store on ...