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When you’re already a target, it’s a bad idea to hang out extra bull’s-eyes. But it’s happening to the UCP’s $30-million Canadian Energy Centre, a.k.a. the War Room.

The centre’s official logo suggests arrows pointing upward and to the right (of course!). But this very image, identical except for colour, is already in use by a big American digital outfit called Progress Software Corp.

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The Boston-based company found out quickly when the comparison started spreading on social media.

Progress Software is “looking into” possible violation of trademark — plainly indicated with the little ® — by Alberta’s publicly funded energy warrior.

The Canadian Energy Centre was working Thursday to erase all trace of the logo, hoping to make it a bad memory by Friday.

The CEC will come out with another logo soon, after checking carefully to ensure it’s not the flag of a major nation.

But there is another little problem. The graphics were provided to the CEC under contract by Calgary company, Lead & Anchor.