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gwydionmisha · 10 months

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#Apple #Trademarks #Apples #Switzerland #News

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sufficientlylargen · 1 month

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Your trademark is the sufficiently true fact. They never fail to entertain educate.

You would think so, but actually the European Union Intellectual Property Office ruled that my sufficiently true facts were "devoid of any distinctive character" and as such could not be trademarked. I also brought them to the office of the director of the US Patent and Trademark Office, but they ruled that I was "trespassing" and that "breaking and entering is illegal" and refused to listen to my impassioned defense of the fact that technically I didn't "break" anything because the wall was still intact, just elsewhere.

I checked with my lawyer, and apparently there's a lot of precedent against me here - it turns out that any phrase containing the word "sufficiently" is devoid of character in most of Europe under the 843 Treaty of Verdun, because Lothair I found the word "gauche" and "anachronistic" and so Charles the Bald conceded that in exchange for authority over the kingdom of Aquitaine; meanwhile in the states 10 USC § 929 Article 129 determines that unlawfully entering the real property of another will be punished via court-marshal (and the court marshal claims he saw me enter the building, so that was pretty much that).

I *have* registered the trademark under the 2435 Martian Mental Properties act, but that won't take effect for several more centuries, by which point the word "facts" will have shifted in meaning to refer to a sort of portable fencepost designed for mid-Oort elk farms, so it's sort of a moot point (or at least, it will be).

Sadly, my current trademark looks like this:

and even though it's eye-shatteringly bad I can't seem to get it changed. I've already gone to my city government about it but they couldn't do anything to help, even after I cleared their cache and zapped their PRAM twice.

#trademarks #sufficiently true facts #TRADE: It's what's for dinner #I will say though that san francisco (and by extension stfrancis) is one of my favorite fonts #introduced to me by the game 3 in Three #which was a cornerstone of my childhood

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ecoamerica · 29 days

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stone-cold-groove · 4 months

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Business stationery vignettes: The Stewart Iron Works Company.

#vintage illustration #vintage advertising #vintage typography #typograph #stationery #business stationery #paper systems #letterheads #engravings #trademarks #logos #business forms

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jayblanc · 4 months

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Found Abandoned - One International Award, Free To Good Home

So... The online Intellectual Property Lawyer community have found out about the Hugo awards scandal, and how the Hugo awards and it's intellectual property is managed, and... they are horrified, and suggest that it's now possibly the case that anyone could set up a competing Hugo Award by dint of claiming the trademark to be abandoned.

#hugo awards #hugos award scandal #worldcon #chengdu 2023 #intellectual property #trademarks #trademark law

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sophieinwonderland · 1 year

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The cringites of r/systemscringe propose BUYING THE WORD PLURAL

Guys... you can trademark words but that would only be applicable in specific uses in commerce. You can't own exclusive rights to saying words in sentences.

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legalcy · 2 months

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ecoamerica · 1 month

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Watch the American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 now: https://youtu.be/bWiW4Rp8vF0?feature=shared

The American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 broadcast recording is now available on ecoAmerica's YouTube channel for viewers to be inspired by active climate leaders. Watch to find out which finalist received the $50,000 grand prize! Hosted by Vanessa Hauc and featuring Bill McKibben and Katharine Hayhoe!

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wardpayton · 2 months

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Bourbon Drinks - Jim Beam Black Manhattan Dress up after-dinner drinks with a Jim Beam Black Manhattan cocktail, worthy of a black-tie affair.

#drinks #cocktail #trademarks #affair #jim beam black

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cr-noble-writes · 3 months

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your trademark is cool-ass sheps who feel really unique but still shepard, you know?

I am on my PC so no emojis, but just know I am making the pleading emoji face <3<3<3

#crnobleanswers #trademarks

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himbos-hotline · 4 months

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ypur trademark to me is that you post wrestling, your the only person I follow that does and it's slay

yay! wrestling means so much to me and I love that people who followed me for other fandoms actually enjoy what I post and write and create. You will stan my blorbos, I will trans your favourite wrestlers.

what is my trademark

#mouse has pals #ask games #trademarks

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gwydionmisha · 5 months

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Hammering John Oliver on Hammer Lawyers With Hammers

#Trademarks #Lawyers #Law #Youtube

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fieriframes · 6 months

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[Trademarks.]

#s02e08 one of a kind #guy fieri #guyfieri #diners drive-ins and dives #trademarks

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stone-cold-groove · 4 months

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Business stationery vignettes: Consolidated Engineering Company.

#vintage illustration #vintage advertising #vintage typography #typograph #stationery #business stationery #paper systems #letterheads #engravings #trademarks #logos #business forms

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mischief-and-tea-by-the-sea · 6 months

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Kindness, tea, and poetry.

Thank you for saying 'kindness'. And tea and poetry, but definitely kindness is a good thing to learn about myself.

#kleenexwoman #trademarks #friends in low places

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sophieinwonderland · 1 year

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the whole "lets buy the word plural" reminds me of the finebros trying to copyright the term REACT. does anyone remember that. that was the wildest of times. anti endos really do be recreating history /hj

I think it actually manages to be both dumber and more malicious.

Yes, the React trademark controversy was terrible, and there's no way that trademark would have EVER held up in court, but it at least understood the bare minimum required to call itself a trademark in that it was actually used in commerce, and was specifically limiting use in that context.

Trying to own exclusive rights to make videos of the word "react" is really awful, again. But they at least seemed to know what a trademark was even if their claim was indefensible.

This is more like when Tom Brady tried to trademark "Tom Terrific" because he didn't want people calling him that, and thought a trademark would silence people using the nickname... which is just so not how it works at all.

(And then it turned out the nickname was more associated with Tom Seaver, leading to even more humiliation on Brady's part.)

We... may have been watching too much Legal Eagle. 😜

Anyway, here's a fun article with some more terrible trademarks:

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lesbianchemicalplant · 1 year

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From today through April 16, we invite you to review the current draft of the updated Rust Trademark Policy and share any feedback you might have using this form.

Your responses will help us ensure the Rust Trademark Policy is useful for all! 🦀

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdaM4pdWFsLJ8GHIUFIhepuq0lfTg_b0mJ-hvwPdHa4UTRaAg/viewform

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The Rust Foundation has drafted a bizarre Trademark Policy asserting that any project with Rust in the name has to be under control of the Rust Project, or else it is Infringing on the trademarks:

Can I use the word “Rust” in the name of one of my crates?

The Project would like the word Rust in a crate name to imply ownership by the Project. You should generally use ‘-rs’ instead in this situation. Please see “Use of the marks in toolchains or other software for use with Rust” section.

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4.3 Uses we consider infringing without seeking further permission from us

4.3.1 Use of the marks in toolchains or other software for use with Rust

Using the Marks in the name of a tool for use in the Rust toolchain, a software program written in the Rust language, or a software program compatible with Rust software, will most likely require a license. The “RS” abbreviation can be used instead.

they claim this is required to prevent Confusion of whether something is officially owned or affiliated with the Rust Project, or more specifically, intentional impersonation of the Rust Project (they also consider use of the Rust logo to be Confusing or Impersonation)

7.1.2 What is the "likelihood of confusion"?

There is trademark infringement if your use of a trademark has created a "likelihood of confusion." This means using a trademark in a way that will likely confuse or deceive the relevant consuming public about the source of a product or service using the mark in question. For example, if the "Foo" software extension removes all double spaces after periods, but someone else later creates "Foo" software that adds a third space after periods, consumers would be confused between the two and the newcomer will likely be a trademark infringer. As another example, if a company makes "Foobar" software and a third party offers training called "Foobar Certification," a person is likely to believe, wrongly, that the certification is being offered by the makers of Foobar software. The third party has likely misled consumers about the source of its training and is a trademark infringer.

7.1.3 What is "nominative" use?

“Referential use,” "nominative use" or "nominative fair use,” which is the name of the doctrine under U.S. trademark law, allows the use of another's trademark where it is information necessary for understanding. This provision applies in the majority of countries with a trademark law. Other countries' trademark laws also have similar provisions. For example, a car repair shop that specializes in a particular brand of automobile, such as VW, must be allowed to say that they repair VW cars. Here is what you should consider when deciding whether your use of a trademark is a nominative fair use:

- Whether you can identify the product or service in question without using the trademark;

- Whether you are avoiding a likelihood of confusion in the way that you have used the trademark; and

- Whether you have used only as much as is necessary to identify the product or service.

With our "Foobar Certification" example above, the person offering the certification would be allowed to say, under the nominative fair use doctrine, that they are offering "Snow’s Certification for Foobar software."

It is almost never the case that using a Logo will be a nominative fair use since it will be a rare case where the logo is needed for strictly informational purposes. [emphasis mine]

....which is bizarre. so many crates already have rust in the name. as one person pointed out, “there are ~243 thousand GitHub repositories with rust in the name”

imagine if the python software foundation tried to harass you about using python in the name of some package, on the grounds that this meant you were Impersonating the PSF

bonus:

7.2.2 Use of Logos

You may not change any Logo except to scale it. This means you may not add decorative elements, change the colors, change the proportions, distort it, add elements, or combine it with other logos.

However, when the context requires the use of black-and-white or grayscale graphics, and the logo is color, you may reproduce the logo in a manner that produces a black-and-white or grayscale image. (We also provide versions of the logo in black-and-white or grayscale.)

lol

the responses to this draft are almost universally Deeply Negative, I can’t imagine it won’t be walked back (unless they want everyone to switch to a fork named Schrust or Frust or whatever). still, this does not inspire confidence in the rust foundation

#rust #programming #trademarks #my uploads #my uploads (unjank)

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thefixisin · 10 months

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#Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs #Disney #trademarks #opinion #Youtube

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