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Wal-Mart Trying to Trademark the Smiley Face
Ellis D. Tripp writes to tell us BBC News is reporting that mega-retailer, Wal-Mart, is now fighting it out with a man who claims to have invented the 'smiley face' logo, and has been marketing it since the '70s. From the article: "Until now the smiley face had been considered in the public domain in the US, and therefore free for anyone to use. Wal-Mart spokesman John Simley told the Los Angeles Times that it had not moved to register the trademark until Mr Loufrani had threatened to do so."
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Whatever the outcome, I'm sure the loser will be entitled to use the SaddyFace.
And since this is a trademark dispute, can't SmileyWorld keep selling its smiley icons while Wal-Mart keep sellings its items. I don't see a dispute here unless Wal-Mart employees start smiling.
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In the article, the spokesman's name is Simley. Why is it an anagram of smiley??? WHY?!
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Don't worry... be litigious....
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I've been producing shit since I was born, but you don't see me suing Slashdot.
Alan Moore should hold rights to it, but he'd just sign them over to Dave Gibbons anyway....
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In a deft move by Wal-Mart spokesman John Simley, Wal-Mart mistakenly trademarks the Simley face.
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True, true... Now that would be different if Thomas Crapper *did* really invent the flush toilet.
Yes it would. Just ask Cardinal Sin (At least you could have asked him until he died last year. RIP).
Has CowboyNeal filed the trademarks for the "/" and the "." yet? One would think that would be an excellent money-making opportunity for slashdot.
"A Frenchman who claims to have invented the yellow smiley face back in 1968"
After all, this is a very well known fact that only Frechman is capable of being yellow AND have a smiley face. Fact proven during WWII, case closed. Give the patent to the Frechy.
"Don't let fools fool you. They are the clever ones."
So you agree it's a coverup then? ;-)
"Wal-Mart spokesman John Simley"
Cost of a spokesperson : $40K a year
Cost of a spokesperson with a name that sounds like an advertising gimick of the company: Priceless.
For everything else there's Walmart Visa cards.
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Lord knows, they are probably incestuous and recursive and using reiserfs - who knows what fsck would uncover as it ran across the files intended to be mounted via loopbacks... That would truly be a CF.
Why is there an "insightful" mod and why isn't it "-1"? If I wanted insight, I wouldn't be reading
Bye bye karma.
THIS IS THE INTERNET. PLEASE PICK UP YOUR SERIOUS BUSINESS SUIT AT THE FRONT COUNTER.
Guess who wins in the argument about who can or cannot legally trademark something between the USPTO and some guy on Slashdot who hear from a friend who knows a guy who said that Microsoft couldn't trademark something?
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It's waaaay older than that.....
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