[Treks1]

Wolf, I am by no means a Patent-Trademark attorney. I will leave that to the experts on this forum. But I have has some experience on a case with copyright/trademark issues and fair use doctrines. In general, a trademark is a protection afforded by act of congress to protect the commercial intrests of the holder to control the use of such mark for the purpose of trade, or to induce the sale of goods and services; and also to protect the consfusion mistake and attempts to decieve.

However,the law also protects non-economic use, free speech and the use of copywritten/trademarked material for parody, education to promote social and poloitcal ideas.