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Exhibit B- Marketing Materials Showing Blue Acorn Brand from 2007-present — Blueacorn Beringer (Dkt. 1.3)

No. 5:21-cv-00251-BO · Doc. 1-3 · Docket on CourtListener

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Exhibit B, Doc. 1-3 in No. 5:21-cv-00251-BO, filed June 10, 2021, titled as marketing materials showing the Blue Acorn brand from 2007 to the present. The 9-page exhibit consists of browser screenshots of archived versions of the Blue Acorn website. The earliest versions describe Blue Acorn as an eCommerce consulting company and show blog posts dated July 3rd, 2007 on shopping cart platforms and January 13th, 2008 on email marketing. More recent versions describe a digital commerce agency serving B2C and B2B brands, and the final screenshot announces that Blue Acorn is now Blue Acorn iCi, a data-driven, strategic consultancy.

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January 13th, 2008 — email Marketing

That's what online retailer DogFunk wants to know. As a Christmas present to myself, and because I was headed back to my hometown of Buffalo, NY in the midst of a winter storm, I purchased a Coal “The Yukon“ Brim Beanie from this gen-x online retailer. The website itself had a great
theme, and definitely appropriate for their target demographic. I won't get into details about the site itself and the checkout process, but the communication from the online retailer is what impressed me the most.

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