{"id":387,"date":"2008-07-29T11:30:48","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T16:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2008-07-29T11:30:48","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T16:30:48","slug":"jug-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Jug Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “Got Milk” ads are cute, and because milk is considered wholesome stuff, lots of big names are onboard to promote them.<\/p>\n

But watch out, ’cause the “Got Milk” people are no less evil than any other major conglomeration.<\/p>\n

In at least two cases<\/a> of people printing “Got Breast milk?” on shirts, onesies, and such, the “Got Milk” people sent cease and desist letters, claiming trademark infringement.<\/p>\n

The basic idea of trademark infringement is that it could cause confusion between two products (Ray Bans vs. Ray Bins). As if people are going to go to the store and buy breast milk because they’re confused about which kind of milk is the official “Got Milk” kind.<\/p>\n

As one of the women receiving a letter said:<\/p>\n

“How can you get confused between a boob and a bottle of milk from the store? They’re two different kind of jugs.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “Got Milk” ads are cute, and because milk is considered wholesome stuff, lots of big names are onboard to promote them. But watch out, ’cause the “Got Milk” people are no less evil than any other major conglomeration. In at least two cases of people printing “Got Breast milk?” on shirts, onesies, and such, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}