Author has trademarked common word; threatening other authors over its use

Agreed.

I can't read it, EM. I just can't do it.

God love your bravery...

I think we need some kind of medal to award the kind souls such as yourself who trudge through the worst published books for us so they can bring us their intel...

 

Wait, chicks don't dig that? Boy, is my face red.

 

Harvey Weinstein, Louis C.K.....

 

Ugh. Those assholes.

 

Someday guys I'll tell you a couple of stories you'll never believe but they happened.

edit: I deleted this because the description was a little too gross to stumble upon in a thread and it was described in the link below.

 

It made the LA Times and I found article about the incident.

I moved to LA in 1996 and it was still being talked about:
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-11-15/local/me-1331_1_sexual-harassment

Anyway, I know that's OT, but when EM posted that, that was my first thought.

(And yes, the jokes up there were still hilarious. )

 

Doesn't that turn into clinkers?

 

The claim about an agent is odd since both Jason and Christopher Kingsley signed the application, including the Declaration that all factual statements and allegations made in the application are true, and also since there is no attorney or agent even on file in the application.

 

Especially when you’re signing under penalty of perjury saying that you HAVE read it.

 

I prepare these applications all the time for client signature. If that’s what happened, there would be an attorney of record. The USPTO’s filing system generates a link to electronically sign the document and emails it to the attorney. The attorney forwards it to the applicant, who signs. But as I said above, there is no attorney listed here. It looks like they filed the application themselves.

 

Well s***, this is getting serious! I better trademark the word "of" for my "of" series. ( name of place, Legacy of, Legend of)

Now on a serious note, this is concerning the lack of genuine creativity. When they start trademarking of common words, like who gives a f***.

Miss Hopkins trademarks cocky, which is already being used a thousand times over but other authors, how is that original or Worthy of protection! Also Joe Cocker sounds like a semi bald guy with a mustache.

Now these douchebags with the word Rebellion, an ultra common word which I'm pretty sure I heard in a galaxy far far away.

What's next on The Chopping Block, Steel, how about ice, fire, fuck. Let's trademark the word fuck, a word so common that everyone knows what it is.

 

I think we members of the Forum should form a corporation and trademark the terms fuck and fucking, because we really seem to own them around here! (Which is one of the reasons I like this place--the swearing.)

 

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sounds like a a CT title... Fire, Ice and Fucking: A mages tale of Sin and eroticism.

 

Oh my dear god. I wouldn't know where to begin.

I do like that she's now blaming the video on being drunk, though I find it personally offensive to bring whiskey into it. Whiskey didn't do anything wrong.