This Oughta Get Your Dander Up

[Leroy Lizard]

Hmm.....


OMAHA, Neb. -- Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne says he sees nothing inappropriate about a licensing agreement the university has with the father of starting quarterback Taylor Martinez.

Casey Martinez of Corona, Calif., owns an apparel company known as Corn Fed. The Los Angeles Times reported this week he signed a contract with Nebraska in June 2007 that entitles Nebraska to a 10 percent royalty on Corn Fed products bearing the Cornhuskers' logo.

Nebraska offered Taylor Martinez a football scholarship in July 2008. An NCAA spokesman told the Times that the deal is not against the rules.

Osborne told The Associated Press on Thursday that "the arrangement was done before we even knew about Taylor Martinez or that we knew he was a football player."

Casey Martinez said he trademarked the name Corn Fed in 2000.

[rainiersooner]

Casey Martinez said he trademarked the name Corn Fed in 2000. That is a lie. A very quick search on USPTO shows it was registered in 2007. Wouldn't that have been around the time Nebraska was recruiting Martinez?

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4007:snck1g.2.1

[jumperstop]

Weird, I guess his father was a nebraska fan before his son went there. If they can't get cecil or scam newton then they aren't going to be able to prove anything here.

[instigator]

That is a lie. A very quick search on USPTO shows it was registered in 2007. Wouldn't that have been around the time Nebraska was recruiting Martinez?

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4007:snck1g.2.1

Thanks for the link. It does say that they first used it in 2001. Filed for in 2006 and last owner is Taylor Martinez not Casey Martinez.

Here is the link to the clothing. It's not just Nebraska stuff. It's a midwest thing.
http://www.cornfed.com/

Here's Taylor's papa:
http://www.cornfed.com/images/101209/Casey.jpg

[LostCreekSooner]

Let me get this straight. His Dad sells sporting apparel that then requires him to pay the University 10%.

So what is the problem? Are you suggesting that his Dad's business is inappropriate because he PAYS the university money? I thought the problem was when the University PAYS the athlete!!!

[Seamus]

Capitalism! Oh, the horror!

[Leroy Lizard]

Yeah, I don't see anything here after reading it more carefully.

[MrKurt]

That is a lie. A very quick search on USPTO shows it was registered in 2007. Wouldn't that have been around the time Nebraska was recruiting Martinez?

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4007:snck1g.2.1
There's a previous one from 2000, search for serial number 75910596.

[Cornfed]

What do you think other companies have to do when they make the logo of ANY college.

Heck a guy here locally had to get his metal cut-outs liscenced and he pays a fee per unit sold to OU and OSU.

[jumperstop]

Toby Gerhart is a model for them? What a strange clothing company.

[jumperstop]

What do you think other companies have to do when they make the logo of ANY college.

Heck a guy here locally had to get his metal cut-outs liscenced and he pays a fee per unit sold to OU and OSU.

Are you paying part of your spek to Martinez for using his company's name?

[Cornfed]

Are you paying part of your spek to Martinez for using his company's name?

Ive been called this since 1990 and notice no space.

[LakeRat]

Don't see the issue.

[bringit]

which of you hillbillies own some cornfed wear or wish ya did?

[Cornfed]

well actually i put anything on and it becomes cornfed wear....:D

[85sooners]

Queers

[OULenexaman]

that's some stupid **** to buy right there...

[cherokeebrewer]

"get your dander up"?

Man, that's old school...

[stoopified]

My dander was up earlier............then my wife came home,dander taken care of properly.

[usaosooner]

not inappropriate at all. it seems like it is but everything is in line

[soonerchk]

Ive been called this since 1990 and notice no space.

You should sue.