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hats that night. We took 90 hats over
to Joe Louis [Arena]; he bought them
for $10 apiece then sold them for $25
apiece."
After the game, Kellman called the
vendor and asked how the hats had
sold. He said half had sold, he
recalled. "My uncle David happened .
to go to a game a week later, wearing a
hat. One of the vendors saw it, asked,
`Where'd you get that hat?' The guy
told David they sold out in the first or
second game."
So the Kellmans called the first ven-
dor and offered to supply more hats;
he allegedly declined.
"I think we have a very strong argu-
ment," said Kohn. "The Red Wings
bought a bunch of our products and
sold it. It's kind of funny that at one
point they thought it wasn't a prob-
lem. My client has tried to reach a
business agreement with them — why
are they opposing this?"
The hats are good for publicity, he
says. "Who knows if it's going to
make anyone wealthy? It's a good
product, a fun thing, they give license
for all sorts of things. We've offered to
take a license; we're not trying to do
this for nothing. They refuse to make
any sort of deal with us. It's terrible."
Said Kohn, "Who's going to make
money on this? Attorneys."
Michael Fishman, owner of The
Sports Gallery in Birmingham, said,
"People purchased the Wingnuts
because everybody was Red Wings
crazy this year, and the Wingnut
absolutely exemplified that craziness.
It's a fun gimmick that will stay
around and I think pick up as far as
sales go during the playoff run and
also during the holiday season because
it's an inexpensive gift to give someone
who is totally nutty about the Wings."
After the Wings won the Stanley
Cup in 1997, the Kellmans received a
letter from the NHL.demanding that
they stop manufacturing the Wingnut
hats. The letter also stipulated that •
"we'd have to give them all the profits
we made that year plus all the hats
that are still left," Kellman said. "We
said, 'No way.' No one told us we
couldn't do this; now that it's popular,
they're going to tell us to stop doing
them?"
The NHL alleged that the
Wingnuts "infringed on their product.
We don't say 'Red Wings' at all in
there," he noted. The team's wheeled-
wing symbol, plus the name Red
Wings, are registered with the NHL,
and no one can legally reproduce
either one without NHL permission.

Last season, the Kellmans received a
design patent and copyright on their
hats. But waiting for the trademark is
making them nervous. With projected
costs for the trademark opposition ris-
ing as high as $100,000, and a poten-
tial price tag of $1 million if a lawsuit
goes through, they are beginning to
wonder if it's all worth it.
"We called the NHL and said,
`Why don't we just get this licensed?
No one's doing anything wrong,
everyone makes money,'" Kellman
said. The NHL lawyer reportedly told
Kohn that the permission must come
from the team, rather than .the nation-
al league.
"We called the Red Wings, and they
said they don't like the product, they're
not interested, and they're going to be
suing us, go after us full force,"
Kellman said. "They said they don't
like the product, but they bought it
and it sold it well! Basically, they let us
do it on our own, spend all of our own
money, saw how it sold in the market,
now they want it for themselves. They
used us as a test case."
Kohn agreed that "it's a business
issue really more than a trademark
issue. We've bent over backwards try-
ing to make this a win-win deal. And
The Wings-simply do not want my
client to be able to sell their goods."
Said Kellman, "We never wanted
trouble with [the Red Wings]. We
always wanted to work with them —
nothing would be better than to put
the logo on. It would sell that much
better." E

Orckit Signs
Deal With Czechs

Jerusalem (JPFS) — Orckit
Communications, a maker of Digital
Subscriber Line (DSL) solutions, has
signed a two-year agreement with SPT
Telecom, the national telecommunica-
tions operator of the Czech. Republic,
to provide a system for expanding
capacity of its existing communica-
tions infrastructure. The value of the
deal was not disclosed.
Orckit, based in Tel Aviv, went
public on the Nasdaq in New York
two years ago. The majority of its
shares are still held by its founders an
key executives.

Elbit Wins
New Contracts

Jerusalem (JPFS) — Elbit Systems