‘Stealth Condom’ Infringes on Its Trademark, Northrop Complains
TAYLOR, Tex. — Northrop Corp. is trying to shoot down a trademark for a red, white and blue contraceptive marketed as the “Stealth Condom†and sold in a black cardboard package modeled after the B-2 bomber.
The manufacturer of the radar-eluding Stealth bomber asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark office in Washington last July to refuse the product trademark registration.
The trademark board has scheduled a hearing Nov. 15 for condom seller John Hughes, 28, to respond to Northrop’s objection.
The military contractor claims that the Stealth Condom name “may falsely suggest a connection with†or “bring . . . disrepute†to Northrop.
Hughes says he thinks it unlikely that anybody would confuse his product with an $800-million bomber.
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