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Imminent Mandrake Name Change?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the geoff-will-be-so-happy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mandrakesoft has lost a trial and has been condemned to change its name and its logo" The article is in French, but it says that King Syndicates owns a trademark on Mandrake the Magician. Update MandrakeSoft can use the logo during appeals, which may take up to 3 years. You can now read their official statement on the ruling.

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  1. Mod it by paranode · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    If anything, that should be modded up as funny.

  2. Reminds me of a joke by Phekko · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mandrake and Lothar are standing by their car, which has a flat tire. Lothar asks Mandrake why he doesn't just fix the tire with his magicks. Mandrake replies, that he can hypnotize Lothar into believing that the tire is fixed and that he could probably even hypnotize himself to believe that the tire is fixed but that he has no idea how to hypnotize the TIRE to believe it is fixed.

    Add my vote to the cathegory that says "has nothing to do with comics" please.

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