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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The University of Southern Calilfornia wants a small private high school to stop using the Trojan as its mascot and to come up with new school colors.
USC has sent Utah Southvalley Community Private School at Woodland Hills a notice that it is violating its trademarks.
The Utah school refers to itself as "USC" and has similar colors to the California school's cardinal and gold. Its Trojan mascot is also similar to the university's.
Until last summer, the school was known as Woodland Hills.
The president of the Utah school's board of trustees says his school hasn't done anything wrong. Bob Jones says Southern Cal can't trademark the letters USC because the University of South Carolina also uses the same letters.
He says the school chose the Trojan as its mascot because he traces his family history to Priam, king of Troy.
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Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune
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