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Yahoo Serious Fights Yahoo! trademark

Posted by Hemos on from the the-levels-of-comedy dept.

fsck writes "Australian actor Yahoo Serious is fighting Internet portal Yahoo! for the trademark to the word Yahoo, registered with the Australian Trade Marks Office in August. Yahoo! was founded in 1994, whereas Yahoo Serious changed his name by deed poll in 1980. It sounds as though Mr Serious is, among other things, tired of receiving any more misdirected Yahoo! snail mail." The levels of comedy to this are astounding.

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  1. Trademarked names by richie2000 · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Maybe he should just copyright the concept of naming and be done with it. :-)

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  2. Re:Name Copyright... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    OK for Farrah, but who the hell is this Sir Bradman, who is Dick (sic) Smith ?

    Gasp! Having to ask who Sir Bradman is? Why, just Australia's answer to Babe Ruth is all. He's the most famous Australian cricketer there ever was.

    Dick Smith is another (locally) famous Australian. He started a chain of electronics stores much like Tandy and Radio Shack. Later on he branched out into exploring, and seemingly travelling everywhere in a helicopter.

  3. In other news... by dafoomie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In other news, CmdrTaco sues Taco Bell for trademark infringement.

  4. my god by ReidMaynard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    this type of posting is better than monster.com

    our company has a director of marketing position open, you sound like the right fit....

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  5. The Greatness of Bradman by universalcurb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know that this is way of topic, but as an American who is a Circket fan (am I the only one?), I just have to say that a test average of 99.94 is just insane...that's like, hitting 300 RBI's per season for your whole carreer in baseball.

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  6. Re:Name Copyright... by Bitsy+Boffin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dick Smith was an electronics entrepeneur, started a chain of electronics stores in Australia, which branched out into New Zealand and now has many many stores in both countries. Took over NZ's own David Reid electronics as well. Think Radio Shack for the south pacific region.

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