Politics on the Hudson

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With all the polls, voting patterns and other numbers Sen. Barack Obama is sifting through today, there’s one more number he may want to consider: registered U.S. trademark No. 3,266,236.

As my colleague Julie Moran Alterio is reporting, a teen inventor and entrepreneur from Scarsdale registered the trademark to protect his company’s name “Change Rocks.” Stefan Doyno, 19, picked the name about three years ago when he started a business to market his patent-pending invention of rings with interchangeable stones, Julie wrote.
Doyno recently discovered Obama’s campaign used the “Change Rocks” trademark for a concert and campaign fundraiser on Dec. 7 in Chicago. A letter went out on Dec. 18 from Doyno’s lawyers to Obama’s national campaign manager, David Plouffe.

So far, there’s been no response from the Obama campaign to the letter or my colleague’s story. . .

Updated at 6 p.m. – An Obama campaign spokeswoman said  no materials with the Change Rocks logo have been sold by the campaign. Spokeswoman Jen Psaki sent an e-mail to my colleague, Julie.

“We wish (Doyno) the best of luck with his business and we invite him to join our growing grassroots team in New York,� Psaki wrote.