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Behind the Tennessee logo, website glitches

photo The $46,000 Tennessee logo.

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Feds say Tennessee can’t trademark embattled new logo

NASHVILLE – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected – at least for now – granting a trademark to Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam’s beleagured state logo.

Maybe it’s just as well.

Because the state has also been having problems rolling out its new, redesigned and improved website where the much-criticized TN logo will be prominently featured.

The revamped website was quietly rolled out the weekend of June 5-6. It went up, briefly. And quickly went down. The site was too sluggish, some say. Web techies have been furiously working to fix problems ever since.