“Hon” Registered as Federal Trademark!

Unclean! Unclean!

by Andrea Appleton, Baltimore City Paper, 12/9/2010

Credit: Honfest.net via Citypaper.com

“She’s finally gone and done it.

Not satisfied with having Disney-fied Hampden, Denise Whiting—owner of Café Hon and creator of Honfest—is going national. She has registered the word “hon” as a federal trademark, according to an article in the Baltimore Messenger. As the self-proclaimed owner of the word, Whiting has a licensing agreement with the Maryland Transit Administration to use “hon” in its ad campaign for fare cards.

Somebody better tell all those working-class women who created the term that it’s time to send in their dues.”

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