Independent project notice · Rights file IP-62
We come in peace. And sensible trousers.
This website presents an independent work of parody, performance art, historical inquiry and community development built around one unusually persistent modelling career.
Not affiliated · Not endorsedThree files · Kept deliberately separate
Real, fictional and proposed
If a visitor could reasonably confuse the three, the label needs improving.
File 01 · Real
The continuing model career
A baby appeared on Dundee packaging around sixty years ago. That model grew up, became San Tropat and is now participating in a real public search for a successor to his project title.
File 02 · Fictional
The corporate machinery
The present-day Dundee Mills Board, executives, memoranda, offices, appointments and Grown-Up Products Division shown here are characters and devices created for the performance.
File 03 · Proposed
The useful work underneath
Community engagement, paid local opportunities and responsible product research are genuine ambitions. A marketable product would require permission, specialists, evidence, funding and proper testing.
Public record · Checked
The trademark has not disappeared.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office records the DUNDEE word mark as live and registered. We do not claim that it has been abandoned.
The public record identifies U.S. Registration No. 1,489,819, Serial No. 73649931, and lists Simply Interior Homes, LLC as the current owner. The registration includes adult diapers in International Class 005, together with goods in other classes.
Trademark records and ownership can change. This statement records what the official public file showed on the date above; it is not a claim to ownership, a licence or permission to use the mark commercially.
View the official USPTO recordSuccession file · A real ceremony within an independent project
Yes, we really intend to find the next Dundee Baby.
San Tropat—the original model at the centre of this story—intends to hand his Dundee Baby title to a successor in real life.
The handover will be a ceremonial appointment within Project Dry Run. It will not transfer a trademark, create corporate authority, appoint a spokesperson for a rights holder or imply that any rights holder endorses the recipient. The selection rules, consent, safeguarding, image rights and compensation arrangements will be published before recruitment.
Operating boundaries · Effective immediately
Good neighbours make better stories.
A parody notice is helpful. Responsible conduct is better.
We will
Keep the labels honest
- Distinguish documented history, personal recollection, inference and theatre.
- Identify fictional officers and communications as fictional.
- Maintain provenance, permissions and correction records for archival material.
- Seek qualified advice before commercial product development or launch.
- Listen promptly if a rights holder, participant or member of the public identifies a legitimate concern.
We will not
Borrow authority we do not have
- Claim ownership of the DUNDEE trademark or display it as our registered mark.
- Claim that a live registration is abandoned merely because a brand seems quiet.
- Suggest sponsorship, approval or corporate continuity where none exists.
- Present fictional product tests, executives or memoranda as real evidence.
- Launch a DUNDEE-branded product without first addressing trademark rights, regulation, testing and an appropriate agreement.
Open invitation · No ambushes, no ransom notes
To the rights holder: there is a chair at the table.
We invite Simply Interior Homes, LLC, its representatives and any properly documented owner of relevant rights to contact the project.
We would welcome corrections to the record; guidance on archival uses; a discussion of permission, licensing or coexistence; participation in the successor search; and, if there is mutual interest, exploration of responsible product development that could create useful work in Dundee.
Our door is open. Our intentions are friendly. Our paperwork is unnecessarily extensive.
Legal reading room · Plain language, primary sources
Parody is a description, not an invisibility cloak.
The project respects everybody’s right to take a joke—and their right to take legal advice.
United States
Confusion still matters
Federal law can apply where a use is likely to cause confusion about source, sponsorship or approval. The U.S. Supreme Court has also made clear that calling something parody does not automatically avoid ordinary trademark analysis when the challenged use functions as a brand.
United Kingdom
No general trademark parody exception
UK trademark law addresses confusing, unfair or detrimental uses of registered marks and provides limited defences for honest practices. Non-use may support revocation only through the statutory process and facts; apparent quietness is not a public invitation to appropriate a mark.
Photographs & artwork
Trademark is not the only file
Copyright, image rights, contract and passing-off questions may exist separately. Being the person pictured does not by itself establish ownership of the photograph. Historic materials will therefore be displayed as labelled exhibits with the best available provenance.
Updated August 2026
