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Yahoo Serious Fights Yahoo! trademark

Posted by Hemos on Thursday October 4, 2001 @01:01AM 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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Trademarked names by richie2000 · 2001-10-04 01:06 · Score: 2, Offtopic

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

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Re:Name Copyright... by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-04 01:20 · 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.