Dear Tattoo Bradley

When the good folks at xmarks started talking about trademark, registered, restricted, copyrighted tartans, we engaged a wonderful patent trademark firm here in the twin cities that has associates in the UK. At $450 an hour they were very helpful

We have only had one inquiry/complaint from a UK based weaver in the five years we have been doing business. The matter was settled almost 2 years ago - I believe to the satisfaction of both parties.

While some folks on this board may feel free to make accusations and take wild guess about what the law says or even what is going on behind the scenes, I as a company owner do not feel this same freedom - because it is never wise to do so.

While we have access to many tartans, I can tell you that we will never advertise for sale the Irish National (out of respect for SWK), the Balmoral tartan, Cameron of Lochiel,and a few others. Short of that, we will sell what we have access to unless prohibited by law or tradition.

So back to the NWC tartan - can we say for sure now that the post about this and the hint we were ILLEGALLY making it was INCORRECT.

And as to the Confederate Memorial - I did a lot of research on this and to my knowledge it is in no way restricted and we were asked by memebers of the SOC to make it affordable for them - If you can show me that it is illegal for us to be doing this in arcrylic we will cease at once.

Does anybody here think that our Bright Skye looks anything like IOS?