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09/23/2005: From The Tasteless Capitalism Department:
via our pals at The Smoking Gun:
SEPTEMBER 20--With dead bodies still floating in the streets of New Orleans, a pair of Louisiana lawyers are seeking to cash in on the killer hurricane by slapping the name Katrina on alcoholic beverages. In a new filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Andrew Vicknair and Harold Ehrenberg provided federal officials with a logo--reproduced above--bearing the word Katrina, the phrase "Get Blown Away," and a small satellite image of the deadly storm. The trademark application was filed on September 4, just six days after the hurricane slammed into the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1000 residents and leaving thousands homeless. The filing by Vicknair, 31, and the 47-year-old Ehrenberg--both of whom are graduates of New Orleans-based Loyola University's law school--does not detail what kind of booze products will bear the Katrina name. But it's a safe bet that these wannabe profiteers are plotting some variation on The Hurricane, the Bourbon Street staple.Granting that this is an individual investment "opportunity" that isn't strictly speaking related to their legal practice, it's things like this which give the profession a bad name. (Though interestingly enough, one of the lawyers in question (Eherenberg) is also a chiropractor. There's some sort of significance in that, I think, but I'll be damned if I can tease that out right now.)
Len on 09.23.05 @ 09:08 AM CST
