Sarah Palin Seeks To Trademark Her Name

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Sarah Palin Seeks To Trademark Her Name

Posted by timothy on Saturday February 5, 2011 @01:13AM from the bob-dole-doesn't-trademark-his-name dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "The LA Times reports that former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has filed paperwork with the US Patent and Trademark Office in November to trademark her name. On her initial application, Palin listed usage of the trademark for a website featuring information about political issues; and educational and entertainment services, including motivational speaking in the fields of politics, culture, business and values. Legal experts say it is relatively unusual for politicians to formally trademark their names because they are generally not associated with commercially valuable products or services and that trademarking a name is more common for celebrities in the fields of entertainment, fashion or sports. 'Sarah is somebody who is now out of government and pursuing other activities, in particular, speaking engagements ... and it looks like she's looking to protect her name with those activities,' says attorney Claudia Ray."

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1st Amendment by Jaysyn · 2011-02-05 01:17 · Score: 4, Insightful

$10 says she uses this as a club to try to quell speech that she doesn't like.

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1. Re:1st Amendment by amiga3D · 2011-02-05 01:41 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  You need to pay more attention. It's those in power who routinely try to shut down other's speech. Whether they are left or right seems to matter little. Power corrupts most of them it seems.
  Maybe it's just the human condition, hence the founding fathers' attempts at limiting governments power.
2. Re:1st Amendment by Anonymous Coward · 2011-02-05 01:47 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Glenn Beck has used this tactic in the past. It didn't work. But he tried to have DidGlennBeckRapeAndMurderAYoungGirlIn1990.com shut down because it violated the trademark of his name. But I'm sure if you research this further, you'll see that this tactic is tried time and again by many people of many political walks of life. I have no doubt Palin will try it at some point. Perhaps she'll reserve it for something that is exceedingly offensive or perhaps she'll sue the first liberal blogger that calls her dumb as hair. Either way it is apparent that it is a legal tactic that is irresistible to people.
3. Re:1st Amendment by Anonymous Coward · 2011-02-05 02:05 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Scott Adams said it best
  When_Did_Ignorance_Become_A_Point_Of_View
4. Re:1st Amendment by PopeRatzo · 2011-02-05 02:45 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  I've heard people say that talk radio should be forced to give equal time to left wing shows like Randy Rhodes that they give to right wing shows like Rush Limbaugh.
  No, you have not heard that. You made that up.
  You may have heard Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh complaining that people are saying that, but nobody is saying that.
  
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5. Re:1st Amendment by nstlgc · 2011-02-05 03:08 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  I call troll for literally interpreting "as a club" to mean something violent, but I'll bite: So I guess that when she said Julian Assange should be treated in the same way the US treats terrorists, she didn't imply use violence to quell speech?
  
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The Summary Answers Itself... by damn_registrars · 2011-02-05 01:47 · Score: 4, Insightful

From the front page summary:

more common for celebrities in the fields of entertainment, fashion or sports
She is clearly in entertainment - how many TV shows are about her right now?

She is also in fashion - we all heard about her massive wardrobe budget when she was campaigning with McCain.

And her entertainment is sport - at least to her. She tells us about her heroic helicopter hunting trips, and her husbands awesome snowmobile races. Those definitely count as sport where she is.

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Re:Hmmm ... by PopeRatzo · 2011-02-05 02:16 · Score: 5, Insightful

Sure, that is how I refer to Obama!
Man, you see how he took that dude down? Guy was like "Sarah Palin is a Clueless Bitch" and he came back with "Nuh-uh, Obama's a Clueless Bitch!" He probably high-fived his keyboard after coming up with that witty bon-mot.
It's basically the Sunday morning TV news talk shows, distilled to their essence.
To be fair though, Sarah Palin is pretty much the Platonic ideal of Clueless Bitch. The first poster has accuracy going for him, if not the Oscar Wilde-like ability with the verbal comeback that the second poster showed with his "I know you are, but what am I?"

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Re:Hmmm ... by drinkypoo · 2011-02-05 02:19 · Score: 3, Insightful

Obama is provably the bitch of the powers-that-be. Sarah Palin is provably a clueless bitch, and the same kind of bitch as Obama. So what we have is a couple of little bitches, but one is ever so much bitchier than the others.
Obama has fallen down on his promises again and again. Palin has proven her idiocy time and again. Anyone supporting either of them at this point, however, wins the absolute clueless bitch award. Palin was chosen for unelectability. Obama was chosen for his palatability. END OF LINE.

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Re:Hmmm ... by WilyCoder · 2011-02-05 02:21 · Score: 3, Insightful

^^^ Exactly. In a thread about Palin, they want to discuss Obama.