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Tardis Wars: The BBC Strikes Back
New submitter Elixon writes: Czech trademark monitoring service IP Defender reported that The British Broadcasting Corporation applied for a figurative trademark on the "POLICE PUBLIC CALL BOX" for wide range of goods and services like cinematographic and photographic films, printed publications, key chains, textile goods, toys, telecommunications and more. The Metropolitan Police was defeated by the BBC in the past while trying to monopolize the London police box; now it's the BBC's turn.
or did this post confuse other people?
When you cant win, ad hominem.
It seem like this would have been worked out years ago.
It is unwise to ascribe motive
The BBC applied for a trademark. The BBC defeated the police in the past. Now it's BBC's turn. Me thinks the article description needs a sonic screwdriver.
Pretty Young Thing #137: Why does the TARDIS look like that?
The Doctor: It has a chameleon circuit to blend into the local environment, but mine got stuck on a trademarked image from the year 2015-ish.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
"Is that a toilet plunger in that logo, mister?"
"Yeah, we're a plumbing company"
"Sorry, but that makes it look too much like a Dalek"
"A what?"
"ARREST THIS MAN!"
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Most American corporations seem to think you can.
fix the chameleon circuit and turn it into a Port-a-Loo
It would be less conspicuous on Earth at least.
For a fairly narrow subset of uses, yes. So isn't Linux I believe. You can call all sorts of shit Windows, just not your operating system. I should find one of those graphics overlay companies and have them make a design up that has the Windows 10 logo on it. I don't generally use Windows and haven't used Windows 10 at all but it would be amusing.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
The fuckwads at the Brainless Bumbling Cock-suckers have no fucking right to get a fucking trademark on something so fucking generic. Naturally they would because, after all, they created the shittiest show of all time, Doctor Poop and the British are so fucking stupid is it any wonder only fucktarded USian and British sheeple watch it.
I'm not a Dr Who fan (I think it's a pretty silly show, to be honest) but if others like it, more power to them. They probably don't like some of the stuff I like, and that's fine with me too.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
No, trademarks that describe the product that the trademark covers should be disallowed, although Betty Boop got allowed as a trademark, but once it fell out of copyright the trade- Actually reviewing the trademark situation for Betty Boop, I found it more confusing than I initially thought, and the Wikipedia article steers clear of it, but a link to a story about it is http://www.seattlecopyrightwat...
Laughing my ass off! Nope, just finding it impossible to login through my news aggregate app. So I pasted the link into chrome and logged in. Yes, still crap journalism.
You can do better than that. If you're going to attempt to appear psychotic then you can do much better. Also, it's the internet. You can say 'shit' if you want to. No need to call him Dr. Poop. Also, I'm guessing they have people of varied races on the show. I've never seen it. I suspect you have, however. Actually, I haven't seen it since it was the really old episodes that were syndicated and played on PBS but that was many years ago.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
AC is incorrect, the trademark is for Microsoft Windows. Windows and Office are too generic, so both are proceeded by Microsoft.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
So it needs the "Microsoft" in order to qualify as a trademark violation?
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
I have limited my responses to APK, I stopped responding when I realized he was more interested in winning an argument than in understanding what was being said. He doesn't care about security, only his win loss score. It isn't worth it to talk to him anymore as he doesn't even understand the basics of security, nor how to read English.
When APK is open to understanding security, I will be here waiting to explain it to him yet again, but for now, why bother, I tire of tilting at windmills.
I have already won the arguments, which is proven out by his need to post on everything I post. He only does that when he has already lost the argument. He has this desire to act schizophrenic and agree with himself repeatedly rather than even considering another point of view, which comes from considerable experience in the field.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Again, you have proven me right. You are more concerned with winning than understanding what is being said. You ad hominem attack, and claim things that weren't said in order to win the argument, you haven't even bothered to try to understand what is being said.
You still don't even understand basic security, but feel free to keep fellating yourself to feel superior to all even though you know nothing of the subject.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
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APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?