The trademark business continues to be alive and well in Big Canoe as it has just been learned that leadership has applied for yet another new trademark registration on May 21st in the name of Big Canoe Brokerage. Same name as included on the May 16th application but absent the LLC designation. Strange.
And just as noted in the previous post on this site, (1) the closed door board meetings continue to include discussions of the trademark. In fact, May 19th discussions noted “Trademark license for Big Canoe Company is in progress”. (2) Now how odd is that?
As the original owner of various Big Canoe trademarks, surely Big Canoe Company (the developer) included the perpetual use of its name as a condition of the sale of those trademarks in 2019 to Big Canoe Brokerage.
Note: It is important to note that this license agreement will most likely be deemed confidential by our elected board making it impossible for the property owners to determine what concessions to the developer might be in play.
Full circle . . .
To be clear, here is a quick time line of events.
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August 2006: Big Canoe Company, LLC applied for various trademarks. These included the three canoes logo, “Big Canoe”, “Big Canoe Realty”, “Big Canoe, Absolute proof that where you live can make a difference in how you live” and “Canoe Life”.
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May 2019: Big Canoe Company, LLC assigned/sold these trademarks to Big Canoe Brokerage, LLC.
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April 11th, 2025: Big Canoe Brokerage, LLC assigned/sold these same trademarks to Big Canoe Property Owners Association.
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May 16th, 2025: Big Canoe Property Owners Association filed an application to trademark the “Big Canoe Brokerage, LLC” name. To view that application, click here
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May 19th, 2025: Closed session minutes of the POA board noted that a trademark license was in progress for Big Canoe Company. (2)
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May 21st, 2025: Big Canoe Property Owners Association filed yet another application to trademark the “Big Canoe Brokerage” name (absent the LLC) Click here to view the May 21st application
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Seems a few explanations are in order.
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Patricia Cross
10438 Big Canoe
References:
(1) “An albatross”, May 27th, 2025, bcmatters.org, https://bcmatters.org/an-albatross/
(2) Special Board Meeting Minutes, May 19th, 2025
(POAwebsite>login>meetings>Minutes>2025>May 19th)