Should people be able to trademark body parts and looks?

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Anthony Davis is apparently some sort of athelete, and he apparently has these eyebrows:

And he intends to trademark them. Well, actually, he’s already trademarked them:

Davis, known for his connected eyebrows, trademarked the phrases “Fear The Brow” and “Raise The Brow” earlier this month.
“I don’t want anyone to try to grow a unibrow because of me and then try to make money off of it,”

It is a good thing he does not have a twin, or there might be a fierce, and at the same time incredibly stupid, legal battle.

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WOW !!!!!!!

Just imagine – GUYS will be wanting to trade-mark their thingies – “Biggest and Brightest”; “Thick as a Cucumber”; “Sized like a whale”; “Built like a horse”; etc.

And those 6-pack abbs – “A take-home 6-pack”; “Lick a 6-pack”; “Glug a 6-pack”; etc.

Trademarks need to be a “mark” i.e. something that designates source or origin of a product. If he’d like to create an image of his eye brows that could be used as a mark, great more power to him. It’d have to not be confusable with other existing brow-related (simply a bar? a furry bar, what?) icons. As to the phrase…words is words and dumber trademarks exist.

TM for a body part as a body part? Hard to imagine how you get it onto all those packages.