Olebiker wrote:
About the appearance of a Schwinn "Varsity" in Walmart.

On second thought, I suspect it's a trademark protection thing. If you
have a trademarked product, you can';t just sit on it and file forms to
maintain it. You have to use it in trade every so often. The wider the
use, the better. A one-time limited production run of a bunch of cheap
road-component bikes dumped off at WalMart for sale around the country
counts as use in trade. For further details, please contact an
intellectual property legal specialist -- this is based on this
trademark and copyright law comic book (and I DO mean comic book, art
by the Pander brothers) I read once.

Robert Leone