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* Fark attempts to trademark NSFW

Anonymous John

I hope the court 

tells then to fark off.

Adam

Double negative 

Coat

"which not unreasonably points out"

That'd be "reasonably points out" then.

Anonymous Coward

I wonder? 

Black Helicopters

I wonder what the odds are of getting a link submission of this green lit on fark?

jai

isn't there a precident for this? 

Unhappy

didn't despair.com already successfully trademark the unhappy smiley :-( ?

Chris Simmons

Drew... 

IT Angle

...was probably farked again after another farking Fark party and thought it would make a farking good joke; farker.

/am registered with Fark

//slashies

///farking stupid idea

Anonymous Coward

What the... 

Coat

...Fark were they thinking?

Chika

Yay! Time for puns! 

They must be farking mad!

Kim Hancock

it "might be a little difficult to protect and enforce this mark" 

Happy

...is putting it mildly! The endless litigation alone would sink them financially, just ask uncle Darl over at SCO.

Bruce

Fark. 

/This.

Colin Jackson

Well... 

Pirate

They might just thinks it's a laugh to own it, and have no intention of enforcing it. I'd do it for kicks, if it were me.

Tom

Barclays 

Have trademarked "Hole in the wall".

wtf?

Dan Collett

All... 

Coat

your NSFW are belong to fark!

(no i cant think of anything more original that this!)

They really were farked from the offset. Fark the farking farkers, the farking farkers, farked!

Richard Tobin

Cheaper than a press release? 

How much does it cost to file a trademark claim? It certainly seems to be an easy way of getting press coverage.

Graham Dawson

@Adam 

It's called understatement. You may consider it's use in conversation at some point.

Anonymous Coward

It's not clever nor funny... 

Coat

I can say fark. Fark fark fark fark fark.

Isn't that (c) Ben Elton?

Garry Mills

To reuse the punchline... 

They weren't farkers, these farkers were acronym's...

Chris Griffin

are you sure this isnt a joke? 

Joke

This strikes me as an attempt at pseudo-political irony...

Stu Reeves

Ahem... 

Stop

I'm trademarking WTF, so cough up now or I'll sue your ass !

The Other Steve

WTF 

Is a 'fark' when it's at home ? I'm far to busy to google it.

Andy McKnight

Fark 

/streetlight

Haku

what the fark? 

Surely the owner of nsfw.com would have something to say about this ?

Morely Dotes

I can't stand it any more 

/wrists

Brian Milner

This reminds me 

of the Games company that tried to trademark the word 'Nazi'.

They didn't succeed.

Graham Marsden

@Tom 

Thumb Down

> Barclays Have trademarked "Hole in the wall".

Next time I go into the Hole in the Wall pub in Great Southsea Street, Portsmouth, I'll have to remember to point this out to the Landlord!

Paul

Thats Hot! 

Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton Angle!

/coat

Bruce

File this in the 

Coat

Far Queue :)

Graham Lockley

Why ? 

Why would they want to trademark New South F*cking Wales ?

Anonymous Coward

untwist those knickers, ladies... 

Happy

looking VERY much like a bizarre joke now. Naturally, complete with some rather amusing NSFW language.

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDBlog=15

Dave Bell

Trademarks are weird. 

Stop

I've seen some strange trademark claims come out of the USA. But the important thing to remember is that they can be very specific, which is how Orange was able to trademark a colour.

And I remember the game company story. It was a set of fold-up cardboard tokens, intended to represent the characters, for a game based on the first Indiana Jones move. So the word "Nazi" was a part of the whole, including trademarked character design.

Anonymous Coward

NWS 

I've been on many forums where Not Work Safe is used instead. Perhaps they can trademark it and sit there wondering when everyone just uses something else instead.

Adam Foxton

@Tom 

Barclays bank (in Enfield) had the first ATM machines. Which is where the name "Hole In The Wall" came from, if memory serves.

So I'd imagine they did it a while ago. And they've every right to!

Steve B

Weren't the "hole in the wall" gang a bunch of robbing bandits? 

Whoops: I understand it now!

Anonymous Coward

"not unreasonably" 

Boffin

@Adam, Graham Dawson

The correct term is "litotes"

"ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (e.g. I shan’t be sorry for I shall be glad)."

[from http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/litotes?view=uk]

It's a bit different from the classic double negative. Which incidentally is, and always has been, proper natural English, despite what a handful of 18th century logicians thought say about it. And there ain't nobody who can tell me nothing different.

Eponymous Blowhard.

Anonymous Coward

Circular linking..... 

Dead Vulture

One of the "Read more" links on the Trademork.com article is the El Reg article, which serves no other purpose than to link to the Trademork article......

Circular logic!! NSFS (Not Safe for Sanity)

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