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Stephen Goetz, a credit card marketer in San Francisco, contends in a lawsuit that American Express stole his idea for the tagline of the company’s “My life. My card.” advertising campaign, and a Federal judge in Manhattan has ruled that the case can go to trial, The New York Times reports. Goetz’s lawyers will subpoena evidence from Ogilvy & Mather, American Express’s ad agency.
Goetz claims he sent a written proposal to an American Express executive on July 30, 2004, with the slogan in bold letters. American Express says the Ogilvy agency developed the campaign, which was introduced in November 2004, prior to that.
Goetz claims that he filed a “My Life, My Card” trademark application with the patent office on September 8. American Express says it, independently, applied a week later to use “My life. My card.”
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The spot began airing…
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Though the study,…
