Actually, Craig, I think "Solo II" may have some sort of copyright by SCCA,
if we want to be really picky. The words 'autocross,' 'slalom,' 'speed
trial,' etc., are generic. In fact, autocross and slalom have been around a
lot longer than Solo II. :)
--Pat Kelly
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>From: craig boyle <craig_autox@yahoo.com>
>To: "John F. Kelly Jr." <76067.1750@compuserve.com>,
ba-autox@autox.team.net, Jim Ochi <jim_ochi@yahoo.com>, "John J.
Stimson-III" <john@idsfa.net>
>Subject: Re: Thunderhill report?
>Date: Tue, Dec 18, 2001, 3:54 PM
>
>I guess this distinction has gone right over my head
>all these years. So the SCCA can run Solo II events,
>but NASA, AAS etc. only get to do autocrosses? Is that
>how it is?
>
>Craig
>--- "John F. Kelly Jr." <76067.1750@compuserve.com>
>wrote:
>>
>>
>> -------------------- Begin Original Message
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>> Message text written by craig boyle
>>
>> "any report from how much fun the folks that went to
>>
>> Thunderhill and the Solo I"
>> -------------------- End Original Message
>> --------------------
>>
>> Tsk! Tsk!. Only SCCA can use the trademarked "Solo
>> I" name. As the Dec. 16
>> gathering at Thunderhill was not an SCCA event, it
>> couldn't be a Solo I.
>> Suggest you use the term "Time Trial" as a
>> reasonable substitute.
>>
>> I realize it's SCCA San Francisco Region
>> that owns Thunderhill but
>> SFR's profit-making Properties Division rents it out
>> to a number of other
>> sanctioning bodies that stage non-SCCA events.
>>
>> --John Kelly
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