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Local Chattanooga Courier wins rights to name, but changes it
A judge ruled Friday that the version of the Chattanooga Courier newspaper produced by local resident John Edwards can keep its name.
But to avoid confusion, Mr. Edwards says he changed the name anyway.
The paper’s new name is the Chattanooga News Chronicle.
“It makes a clean break from the past and the problems we had with the former partner,” said Mr. Edwards, whose now president and CEO of the Chronicle.
He changed the name after the Nashville-based Pride Publishing Group, his former partner in the newspaper, took him to court on May 1 to force him to stop using the Chattanooga Courier name.
Pride Publishing let its trademark on the Courier name lapse in 2004, although it renewed it in July 2007, court papers show. Although he didn’t trademark the name after the lapse, Mr. Edwards continued publishing as the Chattanooga Courier.
U.S. District Court Judge Harry S. "Sandy" Mattice ruled that Pride abandoned its trademark because it failed to exercise reasonable control over the use of the name.
Meekhal Davis, CEO of Pride Publishing, declined comment.
E-mail Yolanda Putman at yputman@timesfreepress.com
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