Jewish lawyer trademarks "from the river to the sea" chant so he can sue anyone who says it
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That's not how trademark works. Like the name says, a trademark is literally a trade mark - something you use to uniquely identify a product as your own. You can't trademark a slogan because someone else is using it as a unique identifier of their cause, and this lawyer shouldn't be deliberately misusing trademark law this way even if I agree with the sentiment that Islamophiles can get fucked.
You also can't get general trademark protection for an existing word or phrase. Microsoft trademarked Windows, but it only applies to computer software. You can still call the things you look through windows.
More importantly you can continue to sell windows as windows and advertize as such. If this application is successful then it looks like it will prevent hats and shirts, and probably other apparel, from being sold without permission. It will do nothing to stop people from chanting it or painting it on things.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/considering-a-common-phrase-as-a-1796713/
Yes, it's like how pro wrestler Steve Borden owns the trademark on the name "Sting" for use in professional wrestling, while Gordon Sumner owns the name "Sting" for use in music.
Alternately, I've heard that the singer and wrestler are good sports about it, and the singer pays the wrestler $1 a year to use it.
Not sure which is true.
Sumner has been Sting since the 70s, so he certainly used it first.
correct, but the process is the punishment
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Time to start copyrighting the words: synagogue, temple, faith, torah, shoah, etc. In fact, why stop there. Wholesale copyright traditional jewish prayers too. Just in case they want to practice their faith.
Wait, better yet, let's copyright R S T L N E
Wheel of Fortune has had it good for too long, I say.
My brain thought you wrote RL Stein. I may need some sleep.
No no, I read the exact same thing. You're just a fan of old children's horror and Ryan Gosling's early work.
The things he did to work at that pizza place...
Bro I guarantee some jew lawyer has already done this.
Good luck with that : you can't trademark a common saying.
I wonder what chain of events made Palestinians say these words though. It's a total mystery. Just hate for no reason at all.
The best thing to do is to ship both groups, all of them, on the shores of the Dead Sea and let them talk things through instead of them dragging the world into their fights.
But also, you can't sue someone for just saying your slogan? Like, if I say to someone "Just do it", Nike can't sue me.
So this is either blatant lawfare, or this guy is retarded, could go either way.
It's blatant lawfare.
It's both!
Under goods & services it says "hats & shirts". Anyone know what this means (I don't know anything about us trademarks).
Trademarks only apply to product categories that you register them in.
Which is why you often have companies with the same names in different industries.
Right, I still doubt you can stop people from continuing to produce items with a slogan. Prior art is a patent term, but I suppose some similar principle exists that this trademark cannot apply retroactively.
That's correct. Trying to claim this slogan as your trademark after the fact would actually introduce the confusion of origin that trademark law is meant to prevent.
100% of the people chanting that slogan in public deserve to have bad things happen to them, so I hope this somehow works.