Danbury Whalers

[charger77]

That D-Logo if re-colored could easily be a Devils logo.

-Dan

[BrianVlietDesign]

The secondaries are BY FAR the best of the bunch. That primary however is atrocious. The balance is thrown way off by that tail, not to mention it's a legitimate rip off. I see lawsuit following this.

[rams80]

The secondaries are BY FAR the best of the bunch. That primary however is atrocious. The balance is thrown way off by that tail, not to mention it's a legitimate rip off. I see lawsuit following this.

Except usually you sue people with money.

[BallWonk]

The secondaries are BY FAR the best of the bunch. That primary however is atrocious. The balance is thrown way off by that tail, not to mention it's a legitimate rip off. I see lawsuit following this.

Except usually you sue people with money.

Not true. You sue to redress a wrong. The point of a lawsuit is rarely maximizing the recovery of money. In particular, lawsuits over intellectual property are rarely about recovering money. They're about protecting your rights and property. The first priority is stopping the unauthorized use of your IP. Money recovery is typically a secondary function of your second priority: establishing deterrence. You want anyone else who might contemplate abusing your IP rights to see that doing so comes with a significant risk of serious consequences. And from a deterrence point of view, you may be better off suing a target with few assets than one with deep pockets, because the target with no money will feel the consequences much more directly. You sue a small-time operator and recover a judgment of only a few thousands of dollars, and you might just put him out of business. That offers a much more persuasive deterrent precedent than winning the same judgment against a much richer target for whom anything under seven digits is a rounding error.

[Brian in Boston]

If they were dead-set on going with Danbury Whalers as the team's name, they should have simply used this...

... as the team's primary mark. Period.

Of course, the team would be far better served by adopting a unique identity package which draws upon the history of the host city, rather than simply co-opting another team's identity. The borrowing of the "Whalers" identity is even more egregious, given the fact that Danbury has about as much to do with whaling as Death Valley has to do with ice-fishing.