I hope the court #
Posted Monday 10th December 2007 13:05 GMT
tells then to fark off.
Posted Monday 10th December 2007 13:23 GMT
"which not unreasonably points out"
That'd be "reasonably points out" then.
Posted Monday 10th December 2007 13:23 GMT
I wonder what the odds are of getting a link submission of this green lit on fark?
Posted Monday 10th December 2007 13:23 GMT
didn't despair.com already successfully trademark the unhappy smiley :-( ?
Posted Monday 10th December 2007 13:23 GMT
...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
Posted Monday 10th December 2007 13:31 GMT
...is putting it mildly! The endless litigation alone would sink them financially, just ask uncle Darl over at SCO.
Posted Monday 10th December 2007 13:52 GMT
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.
Posted Monday 10th December 2007 13:58 GMT
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!
Posted Monday 10th December 2007 14:25 GMT
How much does it cost to file a trademark claim? It certainly seems to be an easy way of getting press coverage.
Posted Monday 10th December 2007 14:51 GMT
It's called understatement. You may consider it's use in conversation at some point.
Posted Monday 10th December 2007 14:55 GMT
I can say fark. Fark fark fark fark fark.
Isn't that (c) Ben Elton?
Posted Monday 10th December 2007 15:35 GMT
They weren't farkers, these farkers were acronym's...
Posted Monday 10th December 2007 15:55 GMT
This strikes me as an attempt at pseudo-political irony...
Posted Monday 10th December 2007 16:12 GMT
I'm trademarking WTF, so cough up now or I'll sue your ass !
Posted Monday 10th December 2007 16:12 GMT
Is a 'fark' when it's at home ? I'm far to busy to google it.
Posted Monday 10th December 2007 16:53 GMT
Surely the owner of nsfw.com would have something to say about this ?
Posted Monday 10th December 2007 18:56 GMT
of the Games company that tried to trademark the word 'Nazi'.
They didn't succeed.
Posted Monday 10th December 2007 22:24 GMT
> 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!
Posted Tuesday 11th December 2007 01:04 GMT
Why would they want to trademark New South F*cking Wales ?
Posted Tuesday 11th December 2007 04:48 GMT
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
Posted Tuesday 11th December 2007 09:38 GMT
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.
Posted Tuesday 11th December 2007 10:01 GMT
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.
Posted Tuesday 11th December 2007 10:17 GMT
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!
Posted Tuesday 11th December 2007 10:50 GMT
Whoops: I understand it now!
Posted Tuesday 11th December 2007 14:27 GMT
@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.
Posted Thursday 13th December 2007 23:07 GMT
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)