March 19, 2007

Obamanation! Trademark Office says: stick your application where the sun don't shine

Two radio hosts from Chicago tried to trademark the term "Obamanation", refering of course to Barack Hussein Obama. They were refused because the term was considered to be "disparaging". Oddly enough, however, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office attorney Karen K. Bush included an extremely questionable screenshot in her notice of refusal. (Children can stop reading this entry right about here).

... (Did the kids leave?)

OK: in her refusal, the U.S. PTO attorney included a screengrab of the Wikipedia entry for "ButtttPluggg", except without the doubled-up consonants since I don't want to get hits for the regular version.

You can see a copy of the email the U.S. PTO attorney send them here, and read WND's overview here.

At first glance it seems to have absolutely no bearing on the refusal, and since I don't have Lexis/Nexis I can't check the cited cases to see if they have some bearing. I'm going to assume she was just playing around (with her career).

Posted to Miscellania at March 19, 2007 08:15 PM

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