The Villages T- Shirts
 

Anyone know where to buy a Villages Florida T Shirt. I have family that would like one and we can't find any. Thank you

Try Custom Apparel at the Southern Trace shopping center near Publix.

There is a store in LSL that sells Villages stuff like shirts, hats, coffee mugs, bumper stickers etc...

Yes, as well as in Brownwood & Spanish Springs. These stores are part of and usually attached to the Sales Offices (assuming the stores are still there). They have all kinds off Villages clothing for all ages as well as souvenirs.

The one in SS no longer appears to be there?

Try the Banner Mercantile stores. There’s one in each of the 3 Town Centers.

It moved to, I think, next to Ay Jalisco.

:ho: Same block, same side of the street.

They have a nice collection on Amazon there between 17 and $19 T-shirts and sweatshirts

It is illegal to sell something that has a registered trademark.

(I think) I need to ask our neighbor.

If it is licensed it is not illegal or how would all the sporting goods stores sell LICENSED football, basketball or baseball shirts or stores sell Tony Burch or Coach or any other designer named products. You may be thinking of UNLICENSED and not UNREGISTERED. If they are counterfeit unlicensed copies that's another story. Registration is for the name like NFL, Gucci, Chanel etc etc. As for the ones on Amazon they DO NOT look licensed (the ones with the actual logo) but I am guessing you can simply put the name of any city on a shirt legally as long as you don't use it's registered LOGO.

From Legalzoom:

The city names are neither trademarked nor trademarkable. Names are made official through the United States government, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.

As a rule these names are owned by the people of the United States, since it is a government of the people, by the people and for the people. With few exceptions, no government names, photographs or other such materials are protected by trademark or copyright laws,

although they may be protected in other ways for instance by being classified as state secrets.

Now note however that a trademark may overlap a place name and be protected as a trademark of that company. For instance Hershey PA, where Hershey Chocolate is. While the government’s Board on Geographic Names doesn’t have a stake in you using the name of that town, the chocolate company has a stake in keeping you from starting a competing chocolate or foods company using their trademarked name. Further, the US Patent and Trademark office will generally reject a name that is solely based on its location as described in the link below. While “New York Pizza” would be rejected, the “New York Jets” football team and clothing company “Donna Karan New York (DKNY)” aren’t a problem.