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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. Almost as retarded as patenting 2 primes ! by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    R. Schlafly (1994) obtained U.S. Patent 5373560 on the following two primes (expressed in hexadecimal notation):

            98A3DF52AEAE9799325CB258D767EBD1F4630E9B
            9E21732A4AFB1624BA6DF911466AD8DA960586F4
            A0D5E3C36AF099660BDDC1577E54A9F402334433
            ACB14BCB

    and

            93E8965DAFD9DFECFD00B466B68F90EA68AF5DC9
            FED915278D1B3A137471E65596C37FED0C7829FF
            8F8331F81A2700438ECDCC09447DC397C685F397
            294F722BCC484AEDF28BED25AAAB35D35A65DB1F
            D62C9D7BA55844FEB1F9401E671340933EE43C54
            E4DC459400D7AD61248B83A2624835B31FFF2D95
            95A5B90B276E44F9.

    Too bad the general public is too apathetic to see how completely retarded patenting a common mathematical symbol is when the dam thing has been in use for THOUSANDS of years prior.

    Reference:

    * http://mathworld.wolfram.com/P...