@PiNT23 said:

I'll never buy a Firestone / bridgestone anything. Good work lawyers!

I don't fault a company at all for protecting their marks. I'd wouldn't be surprised if John Deere was next in slapping Waldo with papers. You simply shouldn't purloin others' designs as your own and expect to use them commercially. Slippery slope, but if they let this slide, pretty soon they lose their marks. It is incumbent on a mark owner to protect it. That's part of the law. Sucks perhaps but they are not being dicks. And neither is Phish by protecting their own trademarks. Big difference between GD goods and Phish goods... Phish has been very careful with their (lack of) licensing and that is their decision and nothing wrong with it.