mfatty500

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Trademarks are a big deal. If the company doesn't protect them, they can actually be lost. And in the case I 100% agree with HD. HD was the first thing that comes to mind when you see that logo from a distance.

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the shield itself has held up in court before when harley pushed it so anything with that shield would be subject then to make it black and orange is just icing on the cake for Harley  

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Well, they're not using the same orange..and black is black...

you can't copyright standard color combinations.....

and the actual shield is a different shape.

The letter shaping in the shield is the same, the font is different.

The center text is definitely different......

I would say a close call if you just look at the artwork.

BUT the intent is surely there.

Just my take on it.

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does looking at it make you think of the original?

if I bet on the outcome - my bet is on HD

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Listen, it was just a bad idea to begin with, trying to "IMP" H-D in any way.

And someone is going to get fired at Forever 21 for going along with this.

 

 

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If it was just copyright infringement, they might be able to get away with it, but it's trademark infringement which is taken quite a bit more serious.

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They sue al the time and win. Not worth the trouble to make something like their logo

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Wonder if they had not used a "Harley"  in my opinion:) look a like badge if it would have made any difference to the sales figures for the jackets?

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to be honest I see the copyright image  I think of knights and swords Harley is just a money hungry bunch of jerks as usual. And I live not that far from them.

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Did anyone watch the special they did on how Harley got started??? They got sued when they had just started making it. It was a good 3 night program. 

To me the shields are different shape, Different fonts, different styles, BUT yet all the same. I can see where Harley will win. I agree with GO-C Forever 21's looks like crap!! I wouldn't have bought the jacket in the first place.

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That was an interesting series. Reading about how the series was made revealed that HD was not involved too much (supposedly) in the making but it was obviously pretty biased toward them making Indian out to be the bad guys. Good entertainment with some factual elements but a lot of conjecture. 

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