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O'Reilly Lawyers Set Up Shop in the Patent Office

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the great-uses-of-time dept.

theodp writes "On the same day Netizens fumed over the trademarking of Web 2.0 (R), lawyers for O'Reilly were beating a path to the USPTO to file for a trademark on MAKER FAIRE, lest some Irish scallywag try to co-opt that catchy phrase for a conference. Speaking of NETIZENS, USPTO records show O'Reilly once sought a trademark for that term. And while details are sketchy, USPTO records also indicate that O'Reilly not only sought to trademark the term WEBSITE, it was the plaintiff in a scheduled Trademark Trial involving a defendant who laid claim to the phrase WEB CITE."

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  1. That Potato Farming Bastard!!! by eno2001 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bill O'Reilly really makes my blood boil. He's such a BIG FAT LIAR it's so sad! Now he's trying to do something to the patent system too! What's he gonna do, get the Fox security team on their cases?

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    -"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o