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Article: 'Burn, baby, burn' set for hot sauce?
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- July 20, 2005
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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 ...