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Mar 22, 2001, 3:30pm

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http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=75502288

:( can still be used - unless someone gets the idea that it is too
similar to the now trademarked :-(

Some people at this texas court seem to live far "behind the moon"
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Mar 22, 2001, 6:06pm

HOW LAME! Now we need to do :-(T
Anyone know if there's an appeals process for trademarks? I wanna make these
lamers :-(T
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Mar 22, 2001, 6:36pm

[View Quote] Don't worry. They are not really serious about it. They just have a rather
weird (but funny) sense of humour. Take a look at their own press release:
http://www.despair.com/demotivators/frownonthis.html. If you read between
the lines you'll see that it's actually a kind of protest against the insane
intellectualy property laws.

And if you are at the site, also take a look at their products. They sell
things like posters with beautiful pictures on them, accompanied by a text
like "No matter how great and destructive your problems may seem now,
remember, you've probably only seen the tip of them" or "The harder you try,
the dumber you look". Perfect for pessimists, but it still gives me a good
laugh every time I visit their site :-) And the design is really good.

By the way: you can now buy :-('s for $5 each. The standard version is $0
for a limited time, though.

rolu

Mar 22, 2001, 7:28pm

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Off course THIS company is not serious about it (I visited their site
too, big grin ;), but think about the consequences that such a stupic
court decision can produce. I was just wondering about the fact that an
emoticon is protectable.
The whole thing shows how far in the past these lawyers live. Usually
common words and expressions are protected from beeing protected by
trademarks - and somehow an emoticon IS a common expression today.
I thought already, that lawyers were idiots when they allowed to protect
words like "Explorer" or "Linux" (both happened in germany) - but this
.... (I'll use the three dots as long as no one has trademarked them yet
....).

(No one who wants to make money and registers the word Dot?)

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Mar 22, 2001, 7:54pm

[View Quote] Yeah. Suppose someone would patent clicking on things to buy them online or
something silly like that.

oh, wait...

>. I was just wondering about the fact that an
> emoticon is protectable.

Doesn't really make sense. But if someone would try to protect an emoticon
and would actually enforce it, that person would be in big trouble :-) He'd
get the whole emoticon-using internet against him.

> The whole thing shows how far in the past these lawyers live. Usually
> common words and expressions are protected from beeing protected by
> trademarks - and somehow an emoticon IS a common expression today.
> I thought already, that lawyers were idiots when they allowed to protect
> words like "Explorer" or "Linux" (both happened in germany) - but this
> ... (I'll use the three dots as long as no one has trademarked them yet
> ...).

As far as I see it, they just allow everybody to register anything - as long
as they have a large pile of money of course - and then see if the patent
holds up in court in case someone wants to fight it. But since that costs
huge piles of money too, you are usually safe from everything smaller than
you.

> (No one who wants to make money and registers the word Dot?)

You'd be surprised how many weird things are already patented... (unless you
keep track of what happens, then nothing surprises you anymore :-)

rolu

Mar 22, 2001, 7:59pm

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Using cookies for transaction tracking is already protected - I think
Amazon did that. Your idea isn't too far from that.
If you manage it to patent clicking, don't forget where you got the idea
;)

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Mar 22, 2001, 8:28pm

[View Quote] that was what I was referring to - Amazon's stupid one-click patent :-)

rolu

Mar 22, 2001, 9:21pm

"rolu" <rolu.university at bigfoot.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:3aba74ab$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
>
> Yeah. Suppose someone would patent clicking on things to buy them
online or
> something silly like that.
>

"BT sues Prodigy over U.S. hyperlink patent"

http://www.idg.net/ic_316584_1794_1-483.html

Mar 22, 2001, 10:27pm

!!! *changes ISP* Damned Prodigy people, patenting the stuff used on
literally EVERY website in the world. As if their inept technical support
guy named Ian (I swear to god, he's got a million copies of himself. Working
all shifts, all lines)
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Mar 22, 2001, 10:34pm

Guess I should've read the article all the way :) Anyway, I still need to
change my ISP
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Mar 22, 2001, 11:48pm

http://www.earthlink.net :)

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