February 13, 2007

You Can't Trademark Everything

One of the externs passed this along, dealing with the USPTO's rejection of someone's application to register "Obama Bin Laden" as a trademark. Among the reasons for the rejection was the failure to get written consent from Barak Obama and Osama Bin Laden. Don't miss the classy airbrush image.

Note that this doesn't mean the guy can't sell Obama Bin Laden merchandise. It just means he can't stop others from doing so (which is where the real money would have been).

Posted by hb at February 13, 2007 08:44 PM

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I think the title of this post should be "You can't trademark everything (TM)."

Posted by: didofoot on February 15, 2007 09:25 AM

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