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A koozie or a coozy ( ) is a fabric or foam sleeve that is designed to thermally insulate a beverage container, like a can or bottle. == Name, origin, and trademark dispute == The name "Koozie" was coined as a trademark, according to Norwood Promotional Products. It was originally a trademark of the Texas company Radio Cap Corporation (RCC). RCC registered the trademark in 1980; but the registration lapsed in 2001. Norwood had bought RCC in 1989, and it re-registered the trademark in February 2004. Today, Société Bic owns the trademark for KOOZIE, as well as RCC KOOZIE. Other names for the koozie are: * "bawdle" * "beach" * "beer hugger" * "beer huggie" * "beer koozie" * "beer rubber" * "beer sleeve" * "bottle jacket" * "can cooler" * "candom" * "coastie" * "coldy-holdy" * "coolie" * "coosie" * "cozy" * "Custom Koozie"〔(【引用サイトリンク】first1=Imprint )〕 * "insulated can holder" * "stubby cooler" In Australia it is called a "stubby holder" due to the shape of the bottles of beer being shorter and fatter compared to the more slender bottles. Norwood has been in a dispute, on-and-off over several years in the 2000s, over the Koozie trademark status with an online retail business called Kustom Koozies.〔http://www.kustomkoozies.com〕 Norwood asserts that names such as ''beer hugger'', ''can cooler'', and ''huggie'' do not infringe its trademark, but that ''koozie'', ''coozie'', ''coolie'', and ''cozy'' do. Kustom Koozies asserted in 2005 that the trademark had become generic. In the years since, Norwood and Kustom Koozies came to a licensing agreement over the use of the trademark, but by 2009 they were in dispute again, as Kustom Koozies tried and failed to cancel the trademark licensing agreement in response to Norwood instructing it to make certain changes to its website, one of which was that "Koozie" should be set out in all-capital letters as "KOOZIE," and another being that the registered trademark symbol "®" be used to identify genuine Norwood KOOZIES. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Koozie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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