{"id":7899,"date":"2019-07-18T15:31:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T19:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/?p=7899"},"modified":"2020-04-20T11:14:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T15:14:42","slug":"national-park-causes-national-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/national-park-causes-national-turmoil\/","title":{"rendered":"National Park Causes National Turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The weight of a name<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Located in California\u2019s breathtaking Sierra Nevada mountains, Yosemite National Park is home to gigantic sequoia trees, granite cliffs, and impeccable landscapes.\u00a0 In addition to these attractive tourist spots, the iconic national park has also been the subject of legal trouble since 2015.\u00a0 Delaware North Companies Inc had maintained park property operations since 1993 until it was outbid by Aramark.\u00a0 As part of the concessionaire\u2019s transition into their new role, Aramark changed the names of several attractions and hotels.\u00a0 In the lawsuit, Delaware North claims that Aramark should have had to uphold terms that were required when Delaware North began operations in 1993, which was to purchase the previous facilities operator\u2019s intellectual property rights of the names.\u00a0 As compensation for this intellectual property dispute, Delaware North was looking to collect $50,000 million.<\/p>\n

This money would allow the continued use of the new operator\u2019s trademark changes. Several past and frequent visitors, however, opposed the new names.\u00a0 The old names elicited fond, exciting memories in the minds of guests<\/a>, who spent time in the lodges, on family vacations, during honeymoons or christenings.\u00a0Altering the names of these iconic places in Yosemite National Park would essentially be changing American history.\u00a0The Ahwahnee Hotel was changed to The Majestic Yosemite Hotel.\u00a0 Big Tree Lodge replaced the Wawona Hotel.\u00a0 Curry Village transitioned to Half Dome Village, and Badger Pass Ski Area became Yosemite Ski and Snowboard Area.<\/p>\n

In order to preserve the names associated with all of Yosemite\u2019s incredible attractions, all parties involved in the lawsuit agreed to settle.\u00a0 Aramark arranged to pay Delaware North $12 million to use the old trademarks until the end of their contract in 2031.\u00a0 At that point, the intellectual property rights would revert to the federal government.\u00a0Following Aramark\u2019s contract, no other outside vendors will be allowed to claim ownership of the names. \u00a0The original monikers from years past will be preserved and the memories of so many visitors will be left untouched and unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Located in California\u2019s breathtaking Sierra Nevada mountains, Yosemite National Park is home to gigantic sequoia trees, granite cliffs, and impeccable landscapes.\u00a0 In addition to these attractive tourist spots, the iconic…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[426,1161,524,2658,2657,231],"class_list":["post-7899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawsuits","tag-contract","tag-intellectual-property","tag-lawsuit","tag-name","tag-national-park","tag-trademark-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8253,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7899\/revisions\/8253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}