San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Committee Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, the corporation has the exclusive right to use— ... (4) the words “Olympic”, “Olympiad”, “Citius Altius Fortius”, “Paralympic”, “Paralympiad”, “Pan-American”, “America Espirito Sport Fraternite”, or any combination of those words. SFAA is a non-profit organization that sought to organize the "Gay Olympic Games" patterned after the Olympic Games. There were numerous other organizations that used "Olympics" in their name, including the Junior Olympics, Special Olympics, Eskimo Olympics, Police Olympics, and the Olympics of the Mind. SFAA used "Gay Olympics" on its letterheads and mailings, in local newspapers, and on various merchandise
Altius Architects and Graham Smith, and David Flynn, who met as students at the University of Waterloo, School of Architecture in the 1990s. Altius Design Studio was founded in 1998, and became Altius Architecture, Inc. in 2002. In 2005, David Flynn left the firm. The Ontario Association of Architects selected Altius for the 2007 Best Emerging Practice Award in recognition for their effective strategies and entrepreneural creativity in a firm that has been in practice for 5 years or less. Also in 2007, the three partners of Altius Architecture Inc purchased 49% of Sustain Design Studio, and their flagship miniHome, a line