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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
`BEFORE THE TRADEMARK TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
`91165787
`Plaintiff
`YOLO SPORTSWEAR, LLC
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`YOLO SPORTSWEAR, LLC
`287 SOUTH MAIN STREETSUITE 12
`LAMBERTVILLE, NJ 08530
`UNITED STATES
`MARK G. MCCREARY
`FOX ROTHSCHILD LLP
`2000 MARKET STREETTENTH FLOOR
`PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103
`UNITED STATES
`MMCCREARY@FOXROTHSCHILD.COM
`Testimony For Plaintiff
`MARK G. MCCREARY
`mmccreary@foxrothschild.com
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`05/09/2006
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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
`BEFORE THE TRADEMARK TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`IN RE: OPPOSITION NO. 91165787
`SERIAL 76/573605
`MARK:
`YOLO — YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE
`FILED 1/30/04
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`Deposition of KAREN FORSTER,
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`taken by and
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`before Cindy D. Liffman, Court Reporter and Notary
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`Pub1ic, he1d at THE LAW OFFICES OF FOX ROTHSCHILD, 2700
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`Ke11y Road, suite 300 warrington, Pennsy1vania, 18976,
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`on Apri1 6, 2006, commencing at 10:10 a.m.
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`APPEARANCES:
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`FOX ROTHSCHILD
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`BETH L. THRONE, ESQUIRE
`BY:
`Eag1eview Corporate Center
`760 Constitution Drive
`Suite 104
`P.0. Box 673
`Exton, Pennsy1vania 19341-0673
`Representing P1aintiff
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`DOYLESTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA 18901
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`WITNESS:
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`KAREN FORSTER
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`By Ms. Thorne
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`KAREN FORSTER, having been du1y
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`EXAMINATION
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`BY MS . THRONE:
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`Good morning.
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`Good morning.
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`As you know, my name is Beth Throne,
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`Rothschi1d. And I represent YOLO Sportswear, LLC, of
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`which you are an emp1oyee.
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`P1ease, I'd 1ike to note for the record,
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`counse1 for the app1icant, Matthew Grossman for YOLO
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`C1othing is not present. That counse1's name is Cory
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`M. Baker, Esquire,
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`from Tucker and Latif1, LLP.
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`receipt of the deposition by phone, and is not present.
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`I'm going to proceed with giving you a series
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`My first instruction is, if you cou1d
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`Do you understand?
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`I've comp1eted asking the question so that you
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`Okay.
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`Have you ever been deposed before?
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`No.
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`Are you current1y taking any medications that
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`P1ease state your fu11 name for the record?
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`Karen E1izabeth Forster.
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`How o1d are you?
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`Forty—five.
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`Have you ever gone by any other names?
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`My maiden name, Karen Eiizabeth Fechtor.
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`And what is your current home address?
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`1423 Scariet Oak Road, Yard1ey, Pennsy1vania,
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`And did you attend high schoo1?
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`where did you attend high schooi?
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`Abington High Schoo1, Abington, Pennsy1vania.
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`Fo11owing high schoo1, did you attend any
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`Tempie University.
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`what did you study at Tempie?
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`Business marketing.
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`Did you graduate?
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`with a degree?
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`Yes.
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`what type of degree?
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`A Bache1or's.
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`In business.
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`Fo11owing your Bache1or's at Tempie, did you
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`Are you currentiy empioyed?
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`Yes.
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`I'm seif empioyed.
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`Expiain to me for whom, how you're se1f
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`YOLO sportswear is 50 percent my company.
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`And what do you do at YOLO Sportswear?
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`I have the priviiege of being vice president
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`the production
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`I don't hand1e the saies, for
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`How iong have you been seif empioyed at YOLO
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`Sportswear?
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`Ten years.
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`who is the other owner of —— who are the other
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`The other 50 percent owner is Chris Fechtor.
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`And is he in the room today?
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`Yes, he is.
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`what did you do prior to being seif empioyed
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`with YOLO Sportswear?
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`I worked for Lower Makefieid Township for
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`about eight years prior to that.
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`some time —— I think I was hired there in, maybe 1988.
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`I was the park and recreation coordinator for the
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`township.
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`what did you do as park and recreation
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`coordinator for the township?
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`Returning to your current empioyment, where is
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`YOLO Sportswear situated?
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`287 South Main Street, Suite 12, Lambertvi11e,
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`New Jersey.
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`was it aiways situated at that address?
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`No.
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`It started out in Rosiyn, Pennsyivania,
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`in Chris
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`we converted the garage to an office.
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`we were out of there within a year.
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`Lambertvi11e.
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`we were there for one year.
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`we got out of
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`How did YOLO Sportswear come to be?
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`YOLO began, my brother worked for various
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`I had worked
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`who is your brother?
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`Chris Fechtor, my brother.
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`He is my partner.
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`Thank you so much.
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`So, just, we were taiking one day and said we
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`I piayed fieid hockey
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`in co11ege.
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`I 1oved it.
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`He 1oved it.
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`we 1oved
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`we started in 1996.
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`He 1oved the —- just
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`YOLO. You on1y 1ive once.
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`1ike the immediate. There wasn't ever a discussion.
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`That was going to be the name of the business. That
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`Then we came up with a business p1an, secured
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`our financing and got started.
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`when was that?
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`1996.
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`And when you got started, did you offer
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`certain products?
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`Yes.
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`what did you offer?
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`Jackets, pants, hats, T—shirts, bags.
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`we screen printed. And offered it to
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`teams. And we had a retaii.
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`our business is rea11y two entities.
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`It's two —— we have
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`Now, we're ta1king about at present?
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`Yes.
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`we had that back then,
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`It's sti11 what we do today.
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`when you say you took your product out to
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`gir1s, what wou1d you mean?
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`we wouid go to fieid hockey,
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`iacrosse and
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`softbaii
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`tournaments and se11 merchandise with iogos
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`that appiied to the sport at those events. Softbaii
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`merchandise wou1d be so1d at softba11 events, fieid
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`hockey at fieid hockey events.
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`Do you currentiy sti11 --
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`we sti11 do that. On1y now, we have an oniine
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`what is the name of your on1ine store?
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`The web site is www.YOLO Sportswear.com.
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`Before we get into the detaiis of your
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`tournaments and events? where geographicaiiy? Did you
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`trave1 and do you travei now?
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`we did travei back then. And we travei
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`we may travei more piaces now than we did in the
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`we sti11 do the same distance.
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`haif years in, we had to go to Caiifornia.
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`we go to
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`Caiifornia for an event every coup1e of years.
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`we go
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`we wi11 go to Kentucky.
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`we wou1d go
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`most1y in the,
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`I want to say, eastern part of the
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`Jersey, New York, a 1ot of trave1 there, consistentiy
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`more so than anywhere e1se. There is travei where we
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`Q.
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`For your custom and your retai1 business, what
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`Team business, we've done the business in
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`about,
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`I wou1d say thirty states or so.
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`And it's from
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`Caiifornia to Pennsyivania,
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`from F1orida, up to Maine.
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`It's spread across the country pretty we11.
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`The retai1 business,
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`I haven't 1ooked at the
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`actua1 statistics, but I do the retai1 shipping. And I
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`many states are invo1ved in the retai1 end, but I wou1d
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`imagine aimost as many as the teams.
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`YOLO Sportswear is an LLC?
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`Yes.
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`where is it registered or where are the
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`articies of organization?
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`New Jersey.
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`when was that? when did you fi1e your
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`artic1es of organization?
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`A.
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`I be1ieve that was,
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`I think that was January
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`1st, 2004.
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`Q.
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`Okay.
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`Before that, we were a partnership.
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`we became
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`I be1ieve it was the first year of the LLC was
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`January 1st, 2004.
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`what about the partnership?
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`The partnership was formed immediateiy,
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`was that registered in --
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`That was registered in New Jersey.
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`It started
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`Then we moved to Jersey.
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`It was
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`our —— other than attending team or
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`we do advertising in various trad
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`Lacrosse ,
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`the Nationai Fie1d Hockey
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`Coaches Association.
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`ave sent out the cataiog.
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`send out postcards, maybe three times a year,
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`And the advertising, a 1ot of it has bee
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`us, word of mouth.
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`The trade magazines that you t
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`aik about, are
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`those 1oca1,
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`regionai, nationai?
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`A. Nationai.
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`Have you had sa1es generated out of those
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`trade magazines?
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`Yeah, but I wou1dn't say that they've
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`generated the most. But I abso1ute1y think saies come
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`from them.
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`Do you have a cataiog?
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`Yes.
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`Forster 1.
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`Cataiog, was marked for identification.)
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`I'm showing you what has been produced by you
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`Do you recognize that?
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`Yes.
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`A.
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`what is this?
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`Our custom team apparei cataiog.
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`And if you can review for me,
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`the contents of
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`the cata1og and your products?
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`A.
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`Okay.
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`we —— when we se11 to teams, if we can
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`see them face—to—face, we do.
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`other ways we se11 and
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`we ta1ked about advertising or how we a11 have heard,
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`YOL0, we do trade shows, where we go out and set up a
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`booth and put a11 out team wear up in a cataiog, and
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`show our team wears to the coaches.
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`A 1ot of functions
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`where coaches come to a ciinic, and the manufacturers
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`can set up a booth to show their goods.
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`we carry a thing ca11ed the uitimate practice
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`packet.
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`It comes with a hooded sweatshirt, a pair of
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`It's a11 screen printed
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`with the schooi 1ogo. That's a very popu1ar item with
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`As far as the use of the YOLO name, cou1d you
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`te11 me how, before you go through more of the cataiog,
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`how and if you used the YOLO name on your ciothes?
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`we do. Not every piece.
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`It is primariiy on
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`the custom items that we have made for us and
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`we have our shorts manufactured.
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`So our YOLO 1abe1 goes in our shorts.
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`we have our
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`so our YOLO 1abe1 into
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`goes into of those jackets and pants.
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`or the staff or the time, we wi11 heat app1y a 1ogo
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`that may say YOLO on it. Those 1ogos were primariiy,
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`when we put our YOLO 1ogo on it, it's primariiy on the
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`retai1 side of things. Not as much as the team goods.
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`The tags, when we use the price tags —— oh,
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`the tag inside the garment.
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`The tag inside the
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`garment, if it's custom made,
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`me,
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`so I can supp1y some. They're knitted or again,
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`Chris, my partner handied buying these.
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`know how they're made, but they're knitted tags that
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`are sewn into the garment whi1e the garment is being
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`made. And that has on there,
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`the YOLO iogo, YOLO
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`1ogo. And it's got our 888 number or our web site.
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`I'm not sure which it has.
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`It may have both. But it
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`has our fu11 name and at ieast some way to find us.
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`Q.
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`I'm showing you what is marked as Forster 2.
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`I'm showing you what I marked as Forster 2.
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`Do you recognize this?
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`Yes.
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`It's our hang tag that we put on our
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`Yes.
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`Are those two hang tags?
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`No.
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`It's one.
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`what is on one side of the
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`hang tag is our YOLO 1ogo. And on the other side, it
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`just expiains our commitment to our ciothing and how to
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`reach us, and again,
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`the size and price.
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`Let the record refiect that the witness has
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`pointed to the top of the page as the iogo, and the
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`bottom of the page as the text with the commitment
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`ianguage.
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`That
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`top picture of the hang tag,
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`is that --
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`does that represent the YOLO mark?
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`Yes. That is the YOLO mark we started with.
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`Q.
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`Eariier, you taIked about a mark and a circie
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`that appears on your tags.
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`How does that mark at the
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`top of that page on Forster 2 compare to the mark or
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`the Iogo that appears on your cIothing?
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`It is aimost identicai.
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`we have two types of
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`So we have a square tag that pictures the top
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`we aIso have a tag that goes in garments for that.
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`Inside the garment or outside?
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`For instance, on a jacket, a custom jacket, on
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`the outside of the garment, on the back cape of it,
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`wi1I be a rectanguiar tag,
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`that is visibIe to the eye
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`from peopIe not inside the garment. Outside, it wiII
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`say, YOLO Sportswear.
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`It does not inciude the You Oniy
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`Live Once section.
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`It just depends on what garment we
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`have being made that the tag goes in.
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`Q.
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`Okay.
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`I'm going to show you what I'II mark as
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`Do you recognize what I'm showing you as
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`Forster 3?
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`Yes. Those are heat appiied 1abe1s.
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`I don't
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`know if you ca11 them 1abe1s.
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`They get put on our
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`other tags, are sewn into garments,
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`these are not.
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`These are cut and heat appiied to the outside of the
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`T—shirt mi11 and we do a iogo on there, it's just a
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`fieid hockey iogo.
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`we wiii heat appiy these —— our
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`to try to somehow get it on the
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`garment, since it's not sewn into the garment. Because
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`we want to have as many garments as possibie, when we
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`send them out, have our name on them, so peopie know
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`where to get them and who we are.
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`Is this a fair and accurate sheet of tags,
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`copy of the tags that you heat appiy to the garment?
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`YES.
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`Now, I interrupted you whi1e you were wa1king
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`through the cataiog to discuss what
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`information appears
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`on your garment.
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`If you couid return to the cataiog
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`and expiain to me through the cataiog, what type of
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`products you offer?
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`we a1ready went over the practice packs, which
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`inciudes Mesh shorts, hoods, pants,
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`iong sieeve T's,
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`short sieeve T's.
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`we offer uniforms,
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`tops, kiits.
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`we offer
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`jackets, outer garment jackets, pants to go with those,
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`1ike, warm—up pants.
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`we offer bags.
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`we offer training
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`gear,
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`iike, sports bras and training T's and moisture
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`management type materiai for training purposes.
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`we
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`offer tye—dye items.
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`we offer pajama bottoms.
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`Anything that can be sewn on,
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`I mean, embroidered on or
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`screened on, if it's not in the cataiog, we'11 do --
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`Primariiy, our biggest se11ers are, we do
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`rugby's. They're very big se11ers.
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`we do hats,
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`embroidered hats.
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`Do you se11 accessories?
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`Yes, we do.
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`we se11 accessories.
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`we have
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`so1d —— we se11 sticks that may appiy to sports,
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`Tacrosse sticks, fieid hockey, ba11s, bags, again,
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`mouth guards,
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`ianyards, water botties.
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`A 1ot of that
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`has our 1ogo on it.
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`we
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`events. And we have so1d it on occasion. Throughout
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`this ten year period, we have so1d —— it's not
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`specifica11y, geared to the sport.
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`So, it might be
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`fie1d hockey or 1acrosse or soccer.
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`And it's most1y
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`charms, brace1ets, neck1aces, and that kind of thing.
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`we se11,
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`in accessories, wrapped and pre-wrap
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`and tape and mouth guards. And we se11 socks, a11 kind
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`Going back to the jewe1ry, does the YOLO --
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`how does the YOLO —— does the jewe1ry bare the YOLO
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`name?
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`No.
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`It has —— it's sport specific.
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`so we
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`wou1d buy from a manufacturer of the jewe1ry. And then
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`we wou1d rese11 it at trade shows and events. And it
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`wou1d be, again, sport specific.
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`Okay.
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`How do you distribute your cata1ogs?
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`Genera11y,
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`through the ten years we have been
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`in business, maybe twice we've done a bu1k mai1ing.
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`For the most part, it's through the events that we go
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`to. Or at team saies, we wi11 throw the cata1ogs in
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`the boxes, where the items are shipped to the teams.
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`we wi11 go to events. And every time we wou1d wa1k by
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`the tab1e, we give them one or they buy something that
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`The web site is for the team interests and for
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`interest.
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`Q. what's the address of your web site?
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`The address is www.YOLOSportswear.com.
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`Do you recognize what I'm showing you?
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`Yes,
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`I do.
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`what is it?
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`It is the front page of our web site.
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`There's severai pages attached?
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`Yes, it is, various pages on our web site.
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`Are these true and accurate copies of various
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`pages on your web site?
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`Yes,
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`they are.
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`If we go through, one by one, starting at the
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`first page, exp1ain to me the difference between the
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`custom team appare1,
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`the hyper1ink, and the on1ine
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`store 1ink?
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`A.
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`The custom team apparei
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`And you go to the team apparei
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`se11.
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`And then, when you go to that side of the web
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`site, you can, for instance rugby, big se11er.
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`Teams,
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`they can bui1d their own rugby...
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`they can put the
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`it's a11 fieid hockey or a11 iacrosse.
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`There are items that have been on there, yes.
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`Turning to the second page of this package, it
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`Is your cataiog avai1ab1e to
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`My partner, Chris, handies the web site.
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`Do you have a database of customers who have
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`Yes.
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`And what is the geography of that database?
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`Again, it covers Caiifornia to Pennsyivania.
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`It's whoever wants —— you cannot order un1ess you do
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`You don't have to create an account
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`the gir1s who they were buying.
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`where the hockey festivai, it's the biggest
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`Usua11y, a c1inic is for coaches and the other
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`what does USFHA stand for?
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`United States Fie1d Hockey Association.
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`Do you get any orders by te1ephone?
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`Yes.
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`Approximate1y how many peop1e order by
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`Now they can order on1ine, so I maybe guess a
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`How 1ong has your web site been up?
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`How 1ong has the web site been up?
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`Over two years.
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`Over three years?
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`Yes.
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`Okay. Returning to YOLO.
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`Returning to YOLO and its web site, you said
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`over four years o1d?
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`Yes.
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`It's probabiy about eight.
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`Let's go back to the YOLO name and what you've
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`identified as your mark.
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`Have you ever registered the YOLO name and/or
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`Pennsyivania,
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`Just registered the mark in Pennsyivania.
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`we registered YOLO, You On1y Live Once.
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`If I were to type that out, how wou1d that
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`appear?
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`we sent in,
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`I sent in,
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`it was ten years ago,
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`I have to pu11 the foider, but I
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`And that's what was approved with the wording inside
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`the mark.
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`Have any of the Exhibits we've introduced
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`Yes.
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`If you can te11 me which Exhibit?
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`The Exhibit of our on1ine cataiog,
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`I mean our
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`oniine web site,
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`the mark in the center of the page.
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`And that is what is refiected as Forster 4?
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`Yes.
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`Have you ever registered a fictitious name?
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`No.
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`I'11 ask you that way.
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`Again, I'd have to go back to the records of
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`if I specificaiiy did YOLO Sportswear.
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`I don't beiieve
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