Olympic symbols Rings". In 1938, the Norwegian brewery Frydenlund patented a label for its root beer which featured the five Olympic rings. In 1952, when Norway was to host the Winter Olympics, the Olympic Committee was notified by Norway's Patent Office that it was Frydenlund who owned the rights to the rings in that country. Today, the successor company Ringnes AS owns the rights to use the patented five rings on its root beer. In addition, a few other companies have been successful in using the Olympic name, such as Olympic Paint, which has a paintbrush in the form of a torch
Flag of Karnataka private and, sometimes, in public, celebrations of the Dasara festival, including the Special Assembly ("haas durbar") during the carnival. While the bi-coloured Kannada Paksha flag remained the state's de-facto flag, the legal complications were quite complex. The bi-coloured flag is the official flag of a state political party called "Kannada Paksha". It would be an advertisement of the party if the state recognised this flag as its own official one. However, the flag itself was designed and became prevalent during pro-Kannada movements in the late 1960s. Therefore, the bi-coloured flag became more sentimentally attached to the people and Kannada speakers