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It's Not a Police Box, It's a Tardis

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the british-sci-fi-meets-copyright-law dept.

xA40D writes "The BBC is reporting that they've won the battle with the Metropolitan Police over the trademark police box, more commonly known as a Tardis: 'arbitrator Shaun Sherlock remarked that even if the police had built up any reputation, it would have only been in the area of policing and law enforcement and would not have extended into the goods and services which the BBC had applied to use it for.'"

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  1. downhill by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What happened to the good old days when Slashdot had stories about issues geeks actually cared about......linux kernels, star trek, beowulf clusters, Natlie Portman etc....? This story is complete crap.

  2. Re:Implications for Beowulf clustering? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Are you sir a homosexual?

  3. Re:whodunnit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    what are you, a new jersey turnpike ononism addict? you couldn't lick yer mom's scrotum if it had instructions printed on it in three languages .. in red ink, motherfucker.

    i hope your hemorrhoids aren't as bad as your acne.

    cheers,

    dimpledCherubAC

  4. Re:Implications for Beowulf clustering? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    1. 'mosexual
    2. beowulf cluster of 'mos
    3. ???
    4. Profit!!

  5. Re:Heh by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 0, Troll

    the fact that you can't navigate yourself around London is no-one's fault but your own.

    Get a fucking map.

    Life is generally fairly intolerant of idiots like you and there are already quite enough bewildered drivers on the road - do us all a favour and get a taxi next time.

    --
    That was classic intercourse!