Article: 'Burn, baby, burn' set for hot sauce?

SAN JOSE, Calif. - An Oakland, Calif., group is seeking to trademark the infamous Black Panther slogan "Burn, baby, burn" to help market a new brand of hot sauce.

Documents filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last October and recently featured on The Smoking Gun Web site (www.thesmokinggun.com) show that the heirs of Huey P. Newton, the Oakland-based co-founder of the revolutionary Black Panthers, are ready to cash in on the phrase, which gained notoriety in the 1960s because it became associated with riots that left cities in flames.

The Huey P. Newton Foundation ...

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