{"id":8795,"date":"2010-02-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/02\/22\/a-dispute-over-the-not-so-holy-prasada\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T12:00:00","slug":"a-dispute-over-the-not-so-holy-prasada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/02\/22\/a-dispute-over-the-not-so-holy-prasada\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dispute Over the Not-So-Holy Prasada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/community\/surprise\/articles\/2010\/02\/05\/20100205biz-nvwprasadapeds0206.html\">www.azcentral.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[HPI note: According to the Mounier-Williams Sanskrit dictionary, Prasada means &#8220;Clarity, brightness; grace.&#8221; It is often used to signify food offered to the Deity or the guru, or the blessed remnants of such food, or any propitiatory offering.]<\/p>\n<p>ARIZONA, U.S., February 5, 2010: A Sanskrit word meaning &#8220;gracious gift&#8221; or &#8220;clarity&#8221; has resulted in anything but for two Surprise business entities. A doctor who recently opened his first practice, Prasada Pediatrics, is involved in a trademark-infringement dispute with Westcor, the developer of the master-planned community of Prasada.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Brian Lawrence Young, whose wife&#8217;s mother is Buddhist, said he chose the name for its Sanskrit meanings. He established Prasada Pediatrics as a limited-liability corporation last April and opened for business in mid-January.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 27, an attorney representing Westcor sent a cease-and-desist letter to Young, raising the issue of trademark infringement. The letter stated that the Prasada brand was important to Westcor and Surprise and that the company had a duty to &#8220;eliminate any likelihood of consumer confusion.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With trademark law, the key question is: Who began using the name first? &#8221; said Jennifer Van Kirk, a partner with the Phoenix law firm Lewis and Roca who specializes in intellectual-property law. &#8220;From a legal perspective&#8230; even purely innocent infringement is still infringement.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.azcentral.com [HPI note: According to the Mounier-Williams Sanskrit dictionary, Prasada means &#8220;Clarity, brightness; grace.&#8221; It is often used to,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}