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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. whatever by Joshuah · · Score: 1, Redundant

    where was this smuck back in 1994? why wait until now to say something about it. im sure in the last seven years he has heard of yahoo and should of said something sooner. This is just outright people being stupid. It's like the guy named legally to oxford to keep oxford university from taking his domain.

    there are no supid questions only stupid people!

  2. Great idea! by Johnny5000 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm going to sue anyone named "John" born after 1977!

    -J5K

    --
    The libertarian solution to the failures of capitalism is to apply more capitalism til the failures are fixed.
  3. Re:is this for real? by Trem · · Score: 3, Redundant

    I think the question should be: Is he serious???