TonyLankester.com » trademark http://www.tonylankester.com Bravery of being out of range Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:28:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 It’s official: 2010 won’t exist http://www.tonylankester.com/it%e2%80%99s-official-2010-won%e2%80%99t-exist/ http://www.tonylankester.com/it%e2%80%99s-official-2010-won%e2%80%99t-exist/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:43:26 +0000 tony http://tonylankester.com/?p=12 There has been much talk lately of trademarks in light of 2010. My view is that Fifa has gone slightly bonkers on the whole subject … a year is, after all, just a year. But yet virtually every single iteration of the year has been trademarked and protected by phalanxes of lawyers (is that the correct collective noun? If not, it should be. It just sounds right.)

Here’s an example of the nuttiness that shows just how ridiculous the whole thing is getting:

(Click on the image below for the full version)

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