Article: Armed with a trademark, Entrepreneur Magazine targets newsletters using the word entrepreneur.

Newsletters, magazines and journals with the word "entrepreneur" in their titles are receiving both actual and perceived legal actions from Entrepreneur Magazine, whose vice president and editorial director, Rieva Lesonsky, told Indianapolis Business Journal (4/30/01), "You cannot put out a publication using the word entrepreneur. We filed for trademark protection on that word and we got it."

Entrepreneur Media Inc., the magazine's parent company, was granted a trademark on the word entrepreneur in 1982. Efforts to reach EMI were unsuccessful.

A prominent case in this saga of litigation is Scott Smith, of Sacramento, California, who lost to EMI twice in court. Smith ...

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