Apple attempt to trademark Music app icon trumped by older MySpace property

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Apple attempt to trademark Music app icon trumped by older MySpace property


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[vansmith]

Both are orange and have a music note on them. If stuff is this easy to trademark, I'm in the wrong business. Time to become a patent troll.

 

[RavingMac]

It seems like their argument in making the decision is that we (Apple users) are dumb and easily confused. Must be a bunch of PC trolls on the panel.

 

[RavingMac]

Both are orange and have a music note on them. If stuff is this easy to trademark, I'm in the wrong business. Time to become a patent troll.

Since you're going into the business, one question: If they are patent leather shoes, do I need a licensing agreement to wear them?

 

[vansmith]

You have to think smaller. I wouldn't patent the shoes but rather, I'd patent the "rubber like material that creates a bind between a piece of rubber and another cloth or leather like material." It's got to be something broad yet trivial. In this case, I could get you for the shoes without question since the soles of your shoes would be bound to the shoe itself.

 

[RavingMac]

Perhaps you could patent the hole?
I doubt if that has been done, and without holes you would have no place for the laces. You would be forced to wear slip-ons, or (God forbid!) Crocs . . .though, come to think of it, without the obnoxious holes they wouldn't be Crocs.

 

[vansmith]

Don't forget velcro - the staple of any primary grade classroom.

You're thinking broad but oddly and potentially applied to specific circumstances. The patent troll is strong in you.

 

[RavingMac]

Don't forget velcro - the staple of any primary grade classroom.

You're thinking broad but oddly and potentially applied to specific circumstances. The patent troll is strong in you.

In other words, "The Farce is with me . . . " ;P