Leonardo

»Tally-ho« Leonardo cried. »Bring me a large square of gingerbread to go with my coffee.«

Holly Sinatra, waitress at the Blue Onion, was dreaming of gold-leaf picture frames around her wedding picture and did not hear the order.

The Law Suit

On the 18th of November 1999, the Paris-based company Transasia Corporation with co-complainants filed a law suit against the Leonardo Association in Paris, claiming trademark infringement and loss of business. Transasia in their filing claims to have recently trademarked the names Leonardo, Leonardo Finance, Leonardo Partners, Leonardo Experts and Leonardo Angels. They are claiming over a million dollars in damages based on their argument that a search engine search on the word »Leonardo« brings up not only their web sites but those of our Association Leonardo. They claim that this results in lost business. (We cannot refrain to make the editorial comment that the Leonardo offices often get fan mail addressed to Leonardo DiCaprio because in many search engines there is confusion between this actor's fan sites and those of the Leonardo arts organization as well as Leonardo da Vinci museums, not to mention numerous restaurants, beaches, hairdressers, etc.).

More:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/pres1220.html

Investment behemoth Leonardo Finance is suing 30-year-old art magazine Leonardo to prevent it from using its name. Leonardo Finance says that Leonardo has emerged ahead of it in search engine rankings, and that this isn't fair.

The face of Leonardo DiCaprio was plastered all over billboards up and down the Lost Highway. Vidalia was beside herself. Frank, alas, was not.

»Vidalia!« Frank said, »He's not in your league. So get over it.«

I went to see the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. I now know why she is so special. No other person in the Louvre was smiling.

Leonardo was the turtle who wore blue and used the katana. Japanese samurai would sometimes use the daisho, which were comprised of a katana and a wakizashi. Unless I spelled that last one wrong. At any rate, most of us liked Michaelangelo more. He is, after all, a party dude.