Article 2XGK1 Olive Garden apologizes to AllOfGarden blog, offers $50 gift card

Olive Garden apologizes to AllOfGarden blog, offers $50 gift card

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Cyrus Farivar
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The man behind the AllOfGarden.com blog wrote Tuesday that he has been granted a "total pardon"-as he described it in a four-stanza limerick.

Said blogger, Vincent "Vino" Malone, is the proprietor of AllOfGarden.com, a website that chronicles a quest to eat as much Olive Garden pasta as possible (via the Never Ending Pasta Pass).

Last week, Malone announced that he had received what appeared to be a legal demand e-mail from Darden, Olive Garden's parent company, claiming alleged trademark infringement, because he used the phrase "Olive Garden" on his website. Malone ridiculed the demand in a response that he posted publicly, in which he accurately described the concept of "nominative fair use"-the trademark equivalent of fair use in copyright law.

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