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branding

You Can't Trademark Sexy

I don't claim to be an expert on hair, or sexiness, but I'd be willing to wager that far fewer people have heard of "Sexy Hair Concepts LLC" than have heard of Victoria's Secret. Nevertheless, Sexy Hair Concepts somehow managed to persuade a Trademark Board that "consumers were likely to confuse the lingerie giant's 'So Sexy' trademark for haircare items with Sexy Hair Concepts' various trademarks using the word 'sexy' for its coiffure line." Consumers will be wandering around in a sheer sexiness daze! Victoria's Secret's response to the ruling: you trademark people must be crazy: More »

10:06 AM on Tue May 27 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
1,695 views, 39 comments

Latest by scroll_lock: @BalknChain: Thank you, Ms. Costanza.@In Other News...: And hands???! more »

disputes

Jesus Will Carry You To A Good Lawyer

You've surely seen a copy of it on the walls of your local Sunday school, A.A. meeting, or weed-filled hipster apartment, ironically: Footprints in the Sand, the mawkish little poem/ parable about Jesus carrying you when you couldn't carry yourself. The work has become a gold mine of merchandising opportunities, which is what everyone, including Jesus, really cares about (sandals aren't free). So naturally three different people have been squabbling for years over who wrote it. Now, the son of one proclaimed author is taking the other claimants to court for copyright infringement. Sigh. It would really be tidier if Jesus could just settle this himself. After the jump, the three slightly different versions of the poem that claim to be the original. One thing we can all agree on is that god needs to pick more creative messengers: More »

11:24 AM on Mon May 19 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
2,007 views, 41 comments

Latest by Bell County: @WordSalad: Don't go! It's just jokes... more »

shockers

Shocker Shocker!

We don't know what's more indicative of a total lack of taste: the fact that Rock Star Games is passing out a big foam hand in the shape of "The Shocker" to promote their new Grand Theft Auto release, or that this would cause College Humor co-founder Ricky Van Veen to publicly assert his very own personal patent on the big foam Shocker hand. Or, the lowbrow Julia Allison-related joke that we could (but won't) make to tie these disparate cultural phenomena together. [Ricky Van Veen]

3:58 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
1,913 views, 108 comments

Latest by LoveHandles: @theentireinternet: That's it! Shit, it all makes so much sense now. We're through the looking glass, people. more »