I agree that it's absurd but as I understand it the NPS/Feds forced Delaware to purchase all trademarks etc from the previous vendor twenty five years ago. It appears that they own the names. They just want to get paid as much as they can for their investment. Right or not they are playing a pretty strong hand.

In the early 70s this company, then named Emprise, was found guilty of racketeering in their dealings with a Las Vegas gambling casino/hotel. They were also found guilty of dealings they had with the Mob. After this fiasco the name was changed to Delaware North. What a bunch of scumbags.

But wait, there's more...

Delaware North also has a trademark application in for "Space Shuttle Atlantis." They run the concessions at the Kennedy Space Center.

As much as this company is a public pariah, you have to wonder what the National Park Service and Department of Interior were thinking when they gave away rights to iconic Yosemite Park names. What kind of stupid people run these agencies? Probably cut from the same cloth as James Watt, Secretary of the Interior to Reagan when he famously said the Beach Boys music was un-American. He ended up resigning as should the people involved with this fiasco.

I think you are confusing victim and offender here. Delaware North was required to buy the intellectual property associated with Yosemite concessions under the terms of its 1993 contract with the park service. Those trademarks were owned by the Yosemite Park & Curry Company. They were never owned by the government. The same contract required that any successor would have to repurchase this intellectual property if Delaware North lost control of the concessions. Delaware North just wants the government to live up to its agreement.

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