...the company has been making them since 1913, I think they're safe.

to be fair, though... the hockey Stanley Cup has been around for longer. XD Plus, also... personally I haven't even heard of them until just recently, when they were starting to be in the news.

And my mind just immediately heard "Stanley Cup" and thought of hockey. Because what else -is- there? LOL ;3

Though that was ONLY because they were being referred to as "Stanley cups"... I never thought the -brand- was derivative of the trophy. It was more just 'why call it a cup when it's a thermos? Why make that confusion?' ... Again, that might just be a me thing.

Even the company doesn't call them cups, so I mean

any legal fight is just doomed from the start

(especially since one of the requirements of a trademark is that you aggressively defend it, and not a single person would call a lawsuit 111 years after the fact an aggressive defense)

[nods] I guess it was just... whoever started calling them 'Stanley CUPS'... and that caught on, causing my confusion

if whoever had called them Stanley MUGS, there'd be no confusion at all. XD Why go for "cup", when there's already this super famous "Stanley Cup".

They already do, which is why it's extra confusing that these people exist at all. They're seeing something completely unrelated and called a completely different name and deciding "no no, those are not mugs they are cups, and that means they're stanley cups, and that means you're copying the NHL!!!"

that's like saying Burger King is violating McDonald's trademark on the Big Mac by selling Big Macs, while ignoring that at no point do they ever call them that

the only things they sell as cups are specifically called latte cups and cappuccino cups, and definitely not "the stanley cup"

(and the thermos is just called a quencher, but nobody calls it that for the same reason you know what someone is asking for if they ask you for kleenex even if that's not the actual tissue brand you have at hand)

(sorry, the thermos is called a "vacuum bottle", the giant mugs are quenchers, though I've never once heard anyone call them that OTHER than the company)

I've heard news reports and all or -something-, though, calling them Stanley cups, which is just where my mind when "bwa?" Not that I thought there was copyright infringement or anything. I just wondered why they were calling them that. And just was confused as to what they were referring to, until it became clear [shrug]

Because, IIRC, when I first heard about it, it was some news report about either the popularity of "Stanley Cups", or someone stealing a ton of "Stanley Cups"... and the news -referred- to them as "Stanley Cups"... So me, not having heard of this company or their tumblers before, was just left confused until I saw actual pictures

I think it's just a combination of a strange choice of unintentional naming crossover, when a group is unfamiliar with the one company, and the confusion resulting from that.

for what it's worth, I'm not trying to argue. Just trying to explain where my confusion was coming from.

I'm just. THAT'S POOR PEOPLE GEAR over the prices

(my grandpa had two, one he got during or after Korea and a newer one. one was full of coffee, one he'd dump a 40 of malt liquor in

uftaki: I know you're not, but it's weird seeing people deliberately clinging to the idea when they could just like

google

it's a very "I believe this to be true, so it's true" sort of decision to be making on the internet

yes it is

Ah, yeah... That -is- the weird bit. But also very internet-y of them, as you say