Aspen Skiing Co is suing a local retailer whom owns mutltiple t-shirt shops, claiming that their ‘Aspen Snowmass’ logo is being altered and misused in order to sell unofficial merchandise.
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BusinessDen is reporting that O’Bos Enterprises LLC, the owner of Snowmass T-Shirt Company as well as 4 others in the area, is the subject of the lawsuit.
Aspen Skiing Co. has filed suit against five T-shirt shops in Aspen-Snowmass to try and get them to stop selling items that it claims violates its licensed trademarks. https://t.co/kJzfo641EO pic.twitter.com/F3dQZnLn6G
— Aspen Times (@TheAspenTimes) August 27, 2018
Back in 2006, The company used to have the right to sell official Aspen Snowmass merchandise but that agreement ended in 2007. Resort officials noticed that since the culmination of the agreement, O’Bos Enterprises continued to sell t-shirts with a copy-cat logo that Aspen Skiing Co claims infringes on their brand. The case is being hear via the US District Court in Denver.
Find the entire BusinessDen article here: Aspen Skiing sues retailer over knockoff logo