Comments on: Should people be able to trademark body parts and looks?

By: davidmc

davidmc — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:55:19 +0000

What will (Bert&) Ernie from Sesame Street do? Will he have to shave?

By: Azkyroth, Former Growing Toaster Oven

Azkyroth, Former Growing Toaster Oven — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:02:58 +0000

Just when I thought I’d seen the stupidest manifestation of intellectual property pretensions imaginable…

By: Nele

Nele — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 06:47:25 +0000

@Drivebyposter

I shall trademark my penis. None of you can use my without my permission.

You misunderstood the point – you should have written “None of you can use A penis without my permission.

By: Trebuchet

Trebuchet — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:59:05 +0000

Paging Freda Kahlo…Paging Freda Kahlo…

By: Bob Allen

Bob Allen — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:24:28 +0000

JUST – as I said – in comment #1 above !!!!

By: Drivebyposter

Drivebyposter — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 03:18:25 +0000

I shall trademark my penis. None of you can use my without my permission.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:20:22 +0000

I was the brow.

By: John Swindle

John Swindle — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:14:38 +0000

“Me and my family decided to trademark it because it’s very unique.”

I have to wonder how this kid got through elementary school, high school, and college without ever paying attention in an English class.

By: baal

baal — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:12:07 +0000

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.

By: Bob Allen

Bob Allen — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:13:07 +0000

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.