$40,000/year private school sues school for low-income kids for $2M over "Commonwealth"

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@waetherman

Finally, confusion in the market doesn’t just happen at the student level, it happens at the college or job level too; someone who paid for a top-flight education at the School don’t want college admissions officers or employers to put their applications in the same pile as the Acadamy students. That’s a legitimate concern for confusion.

That’s a really interesting point. But is the reputation bump a person gets from a product really protected in trademark law? I would think it would only cover confusion on the part of the consumer as to what product they were paying for. Although I guess if you buy a Gucci bag from a whispering woman on Canal Street, there’s little chance of confusion for you, but Gucci seems to have been successful in making the argument that there is confusion for the people who see you strutting around with it later…