Losing Seattle Post-Intelligencer Will Hurt Public and Trademark Community Alike
The Seattle P-I: It’ll be a sad day when the printing presses stop.
This week may mark the end of the the 146 year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer, one of two daily newspapers here. The loss of jobs — and, more importantly, the loss of viewpoints — will impoverish our city. That includes the public, business, and legal communities that have an interest in trademark issues.
We’ve been lucky to have the P-I reporting trademark news all these years. Here’s just a sampling of articles from 2009 we’re likely to miss when the paper closes its doors:
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“Trademark lawsuit against Eddie Bauer dropped” (March 11);
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“Inside Entrepreneurship: Learn trademark basics to avoid unnecessary costs” (March 5);
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“Tour-bound Phish asks judge to reel in bootleggers” (March 4);
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“Laughing Buddha Brewing will take a new name” (Feb. 23);
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“Microsoft promotes its top intellectual property lawyer” (Feb. 19); and
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“Experience Hendrix wins judgment in vodka lawsuit” (Feb. 17).
Granted, some of these stories are from the Associated Press; some were reported by The Seattle Times; and some came from the P-I’s Big Blog, which hopefully will continue even after the P-I stops printing content on paper. STL covered some of these issues, too. But the loss of the P-I adding to the mix will really hurt.
It’s a sad time for Seattleites. While we get our news — including trademark law news — from lots of sources, we’ll be poorer when those sources don’t include the P-I.
Photo credit: The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times reports today that the last P-I newspaper will roll off the presses tomorrow. The P-I will attempt to publish an online version of the paper but will cut the number of its employees from 167 (almost all in the news department) to 20 or 25.


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