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I just heard that this group was presented with a Cease & Desist order at Sema. Anyone know anything about this?
James

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Didn't see anything unusual while I was there..I even have a few shots of the car that was there in the SEMA post...the stripe is ugly in my opinion!

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I just heard that this group was presented with a Cease & Desist order at Sema. Anyone know anything about this?
James

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Yes..the Yenko family, Don's daughters Terri and Lynn, had Mr. Leonard and his group served with a Cease & Desist order at SEMA.

Their reply bascially said that they, not the Yenko family, owned the rights to the Yenko name, therefore they could do what they wanted.

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I asked earlier but never got a response. Who was it that this group supposedly bought the rights to the Yenko name from?
James

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I asked earlier but never got a response. Who was it that this group supposedly bought the rights to the Yenko name from?
James

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The U.S. government, the trademark division.

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O,ok. I thought they were saying they bought it from someone or another company. Thanks for clearing it up.
James

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I just heard that this group was presented with a Cease & Desist order at Sema. Anyone know anything about this?
James

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Yes..the Yenko family, Don's daughters Terri and Lynn, had Mr. Leonard and his group served with a Cease & Desist order at SEMA.

Their reply bascially said that they, not the Yenko family, owned the rights to the Yenko name, therefore they could do what they wanted.

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Well, if nothing else, the family can use publicity to make doing business uncomfortable for these people. I've already been commenting on this on every automotive news forum on the 'net.

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Well, as much as I hate to say it I wont be buying anything from classic ind anymore. What a crooked way of doing things. This is ridiculous. The name belongs to the family noy Jeff Leonard. Whats next, is he gonna pull an "OCHOCINKO" and change his last name to "Yenko"? WHAT A TOOLBAG!!!!! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

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On a related note, I went back and checked the response to my comments on the aformentioned news sites, and they've all been deleted. Every one.

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Any updates???

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The Yenko family has retained a trademark attorney in an effort to retain the rights to their name, and the sYc has done the same, to protect our rights to sYc.

We are hopeful for some sort of out of court settlement, but at this point up to Leonard.

For now, business as usual around here.

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At the recent MCACN show I was told that a couple of weeks before SEMA, GMCI/Classic had a meeting with GM, pitching the idea of GM doing a 2010 Yenko Camaro, no doubt the car in the OER booth at SEMA. This would explain why in the last couple of years GMCI/Classic registered so many Yenko and sYc marks. If GM had signed on, no doubt with a licensing agreement from GMCI/Classic, big bucks for someone, unfortunately not the Yenko family.

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WOW!!!! I feel bad for the YENKO family. They dont even have rights to their name. excuse this expression but Jeff Leonard is raping them of their name. He wants it they say NO and still get screwed. What is this world coming to???? This is ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!

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The Yenko family needs to take a page from Caroll Shelby's playbook. A lot of people bag on him for, sometimes, viciously defending his name and brand. His lawyers can slap a "cease and desist" on someone so quick it'll make your head spin. Plus I think they have won every case that has gone to court. Like it or not, in this hobby, a name is everything. That little name on a car can mean the difference between a $30k and a $100k car.

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OK, so I'm resurrecting a thread from WAY back. I never saw a late model Yenko come out. What was the end result of this?