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Zazzle.com Thinks Depictions of Pi Are Protected Intellectual Property

Posted by Soulskill on from the attention-i-have-trademarked-the-space-between-letters-please-stop-using-it dept.

Byteme writes: "A number of Zazzle.com users have had their art and products removed from the site after a man named Paul Ingrisano was granted a trademark for 'Pi Productions' using a logo that consists of this freely available version of the pi symbol from the Wikimedia website combined with a period. He made infringement claims against several websites, and Zazzle took down many clothing products that featured designs using the pi symbol. When users called them on it, they locked a public forum thread and said they're evaluating Ingrisano's complaint."

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  1. Pi R Protected by SpankiMonki · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    My PI hole sez no. (don't ask what my CORN hole sez)

  2. Re:Prior Art Exists. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you're referring to the judeo-chrisitan god, he's only 6000 years old. But he didn't invent pi - according to informed people, that was another god called Zeuss

    Zeuss however, only gave the greeks their alphabet, which contained pi. The value of pi (3.1415....) was actually decided by the big bang, which predates both gods by several billion years

  3. Re:Streisand Effect by sir-gold · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    From the trademark application:

    Paul Ingrisano
    1933 73rd street
    Brooklyn NY 11204
    719-419-0800
    PaulIngrisano@aol.com