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Article: Junior Achievement sues marketing firm in U.S. District Court in Baltimore over 'Junior Achievers'
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- The Daily Record (Baltimore)
- Article date:
- January 8, 2009
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The nonprofit organization behind "Junior Achievement" has filed
a trademark infringement lawsuit against a Prince George's County
lawyer and her sports marketing company, which uses "Junior
Achievers" as a shorthand name for its own charitable foundation.
JA Worldwide, the Colorado-based operation whose volunteers teach
millions of students about entrepreneurship each year in more than
100 countries, claims it learned of Juli W. Jordan's JAM Sports and
Entertainment LLC and Junior Achievers Motivated to Succeed
Foundation USA when "at least one of its supporters and
contributors" called about a celebrity basketball game JAM Sports is
putting on the day before this year's Super Bowl.
The ...