Razorback Website?

[barrabas74]

Scott usually I find your website easily, and since you post here often I figured this would be the best place. Is your site down or being worked on? I was wanting to look into a knife and I could no longer find it. Thanks, feel free to move this if it is not supposed to be here.

 

[mtnfolk mike]

here you go.. www.gossmanknives.com

 

[Gossman Knives]

thanks for posting that Mike. barrabas74, I no longer go by razorback knives since I was shafted by the University of Arkansas.
New logo, new name. razorback knives is history.
Scott

 

[peripatew]

since I was shafted by the University of Arkansas.

What happened? I live in NW Arkansas... so I'm curious!

 

[Gossman Knives]

It was a trademark problem. I'll leave it at that. I would prefer to forget it and move on. Like I said it's history.
Scott

 

[Lorien]

You're better off using your own kname anyway, in my opinion.

 

[barrabas74]

Thanks for the info, hopefully this helped a few other people too.

 

[hlee]

You'll find that trademark owners are very protective of their trademarks. If they are not, and let someone go, then there is a precident and the trademark can lose its protected status. The University of Texas shut down a restuarant in Austin a couple of years ago that had taken the name Bevos. It was an italian restuarant, and apparently Bevos means "drinks" in italian, but in Austin "Bevo" only has one meaning. Universities have entire departments devoted to vetting "officially licensed" products, and take infringement very seriously. Like it or not, and intentionally or not, calling your company razorback knives (or longhorn, sooner, yellowjacket, buckeye, etc) can be construed as trademark infringement. Perhaps we need a "corporate survival skills" forum.