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And the term kogi is not a commonly used term on Korean menus whereas the term “sushi” would have been on a lot of Japanese menus in the early 80s.
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Also, I highly doubt the word kogi is trademarked, just as Long John Silver’s is now selling Baja Tacos… Yeah, but Baja Fresh didn’t invent the baja style taco.
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In Los Angeles, which these days is home to the largest Korean community outside of Korea itself, bulgogi is served on flour tortillas and sold by mobile vendors as kogi, aka “Korean barbecue tacos.”
SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010
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In Los Angeles, which these days is home to the largest Korean community outside of Korea itself, bulgogi is served on flour tortillas and sold by mobile vendors as kogi, aka “Korean barbecue tacos.”
SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010
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Korean barbecue is known as bulgogi or bool kogi and comes from two words meaning “fire” and “meat.”
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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In any case, if Kogi can trademark the term “kogi”, I would be extremely surprised at how ignorant and retarded these laws are.
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The term “gogi” or “kogi” IS a common term on Korean menus.
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It looks like my hope of having knock off “kogi tacos” come to Baja Fresh here in New York is not just a pipe dream.
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So it seems like the word “kogi” is not really the commonly used phonetic spelling of “meat” that we thought it was.
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And with “kogi” and “taco” being generic food descriptors, no one is going to get a trademark on “kogi tacos” nor prevent anyone else from using that as a food item name.
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