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"We cover a great many ridiculous and infuriating trademark disputes
here, but it’s always the disputes around overly broad terms that never
should have been trademarked to begin with that are the most
frustrating. And that most irritating of those is when we get into
geographic terms that never should be locked up by any single company or
entity. Examples in the past have included companies fighting over who
gets to use the name of their home city of “Detroit”, or when grocer
Iceland Foods got so aggressive in its own trademark enforcement that
the – checks notes – nation of Iceland had to seek to revoke the
company’s EU trademark registration.
While it should be self-evident how antithetical to the purpose of
trademark laws are to even approve of these kinds of marks, I will say
that I didn’t see it coming that a company at some point would attempt
to play trademark bully over the “planet.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
