Comments on: Indiana Chamber Suing Christian Chamber http://kylelacy.com/indiana-chamber-suing-christian-chamber/ Social Media Training and Consulting Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:01:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul Reinken http://kylelacy.com/indiana-chamber-suing-christian-chamber/comment-page-1/#comment-214 Paul Reinken Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:12:17 +0000 http://kylelacy.com/indiana-chamber-suing-christian-chamber/#comment-214 This is sort of interesting to me, in that the far-reaching arms of the Indiana Chamber may be able to stifle other groups from starting up, based upon the name, which also happens to be the word used to describe its function: chamber. What if, for example, the word magazine or the word salon or the word guild had been taken in association with the state's name. Could there only be one magazine with the words Indiana and Magazine. Like Indiana Farm Magazine couldn't co-exist with Indiana Style Magazine? This law seems to be antiquated, in that it prevents future businesses from gaining ground on the basis that a previous organization already exists, ignoring if the previous organization is more or less specialized, successful, functional, or practical. Instead, it is based on which organization came first. Perhaps I'm shrinking the scope of this topic to smaller than reasonable... This is sort of interesting to me, in that the far-reaching arms of the Indiana Chamber may be able to stifle other groups from starting up, based upon the name, which also happens to be the word used to describe its function: chamber. What if, for example, the word magazine or the word salon or the word guild had been taken in association with the state’s name. Could there only be one magazine with the words Indiana and Magazine. Like Indiana Farm Magazine couldn’t co-exist with Indiana Style Magazine? This law seems to be antiquated, in that it prevents future businesses from gaining ground on the basis that a previous organization already exists, ignoring if the previous organization is more or less specialized, successful, functional, or practical. Instead, it is based on which organization came first.

Perhaps I’m shrinking the scope of this topic to smaller than reasonable…

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