A California school has dropped a challenge it lodged against a future Douglas County charter high school over the use of the name John Adams.
Roseville, Calif.-based John Adams Academy sent a letter to Matthew Krol, president of the board of directors for John Adams High School, over the weekend telling him “we have decided not to allocate additional resources to this matter.”
Krol, in an e-mail sent to The Denver Post on Monday, thanked the academy “for realizing that reaching an amicable solution was the best for both charter schools and its parents and students.”
The California academy last month told the Colorado school, which is scheduled to open next year, that use of the presidential moniker violated the two trademark registrations it held on the name.
Having such similarly named institutions, the academy argued,
It warned John Adams High School to find a new name or risk facing legal action.
Krol told The Post last week that he and other leaders of the school had “no plans to relinquish the name,” which adorns the walls of a number of schools throughout the country.
“They shouldn’t have ownership of the names of presidents of the United States,” he said.
Despite backing down, John Adams Academy Headmaster Shane Schulthies wrote in the letter that the school’s intent remained “to protect our brand while reducing the potential for further confusion.”
