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Article: Criticism over Big Boy statue misguided
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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Let's give Big Boy Restaurants International the
"Shortsightedness of the Year" award.
The Warren, Mich.-based company says the Big Boy statue atop the
monument on Kanawha Boulevard near Patrick Street is a trademark
infringement.
The statue was erected by the family of Shoney's founder Alex
Schoenbaum on the spot of his first restaurant.
But Shoney's broke away from the Big Boy chain in 1976.
Jennifer Bourgoin, vice president and general counsel for Big Boy
Restaurants International, told a reporter, "As an owner of a
trademark, we have a duty to make sure the marks are used in
authorized or trademarked ways and as the owner of the mark we have
the sole authority to determine how the marks ...