Not sure why this grabbed my interest, but I did a little digging around the use of the term "Scouts," and found this page: http://histclo.com/youth/youth/org/sco/country/us/scoutus-abs.htm (this interesting bits are in the "Litigation" section and just below.)

It seems that the claim does have some basis going back to the 19-teens, but that the House Judiciary Committee and courts emphasized things like the *intention* of creating confusion about the organizations (Boy Scouts of America vs. United States Boy Scout), the importance of the integrity of the *badges* awarded by the BSA, and the extensive public service provided (at least at the time) by the BSA's projects.

Whether any of those apply in this case, I don't know…but I'm skeptical.

Pete

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth@gmail.com> wrote:

And here's a bit on that "congressional charter" part: http://enwp.org/Boy_Scouts_of_America#Federally_chartered_corporation The Wikipedia article mentions the exclusive use of the term "scout", but did not provide a citation. I just added a [citation needed] tag.

Interesting stuff.
Pete

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Anthony Di Franco <di.franco@gmail.com> wrote:

Here is the context, in case like me you were wondering, but didn't care to dig:
https://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/08/20/boy-scouts-of-america-threatens-to-sue-hacker-scouts-over-name/

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Mitch Altman <maltman23@hotmail.com> wrote:

We really need to put pressure on these F*!&^#(&-ing A*!&^#(&-holes at the Boy Scouts of America. They really do not seem to care about the world we all inhabit, and need to be put in their place.

MAKE, Sparkfun, Adafruit are into pressuring the BSA. If we can get a bunch of hackerspaces to do the same, we will make an impact.

"no matter what happens, how we all react to a group like the BSA will define "us" fighting and losing is ok, but i think you need to fight it all the way… think of a world where there are hacker scouts, learning sharing and it would all start with a shared victory together over an old oppressive scared group trying to get in the way of the future." -- Phil Torrone, of Adafruit

Here are just a few places to add some well-placed comments:
>>>>>> Boy Scouts Google+ page:
>>>>>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/+BoyScoutsofAmerica/posts
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Boy Scouts Facebook page:
>>>>>> https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boy-Scouts-of-America/113441755297
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bot Scouts on Twitter:
>>>>>> https://twitter.com/boyscouts
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Boy Scouts on YouTube:
>>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/bsa100years
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Email:
>>>>>> PR@scouting.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The official publication for the adult volunteers site:
>>>>>> http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Twitter:
>>>>>> http://www.twitter.com/scouting
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Facebook:
>>>>>> http://www.facebook.com/scoutingmagazine
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Email:
>>>>>> scoutingmag@gmail.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Boy's Life Magazine:
>>>>>> http://boyslife.org/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Twitter:
>>>>>> https://twitter.com/BoysLife
>>>>>> Email:
>>>>>> boyslife.mag@scouting.org

Best,
Mitch.

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