Top 6 most ridiculous things people claimed to legally own, with something rather familiar at number 4...
http://www.cracked.com/article_20559_the-6-most-ridiculous-things-people-claimed-to-legally-own.html (http://www.cracked.com/article_20559_the-6-most-ridiculous-things-people-claimed-to-legally-own.html)
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Remember someone posted something about this earlier this year. GW just go from bad to worse...
Poor Spike Milliagan
Not even GW can out-spend Microsoft.....
IanS
Daftest thing I've heard since IBM tried to copyright their logo and were bluntly told by the courts that they couldn't copyright initials. <:-P
Didn't someone try to trademark "orc"?
o - Ork......orc is old Saxon for monster.
IanS
Ah, that's where Tolkien got it from. :)
If I could afford it I'd bring out a range of figures called Imperial Space-Guard Marines
Quote from: Hertsblue on 11 August 2013, 01:32:21 PM
Ah, that's where Tolkien got it from. :)
Its where he got most of his stuff from
And his tobacco.
IanS :d
Well after all he was a Professor of Anglo-Saxon literature (or something along those lines) :D.
Was that film 'Nessie' Disney? They reputedly tried to claim legal rights to that name... And I'm sure I've heard of more than one cafe run by someone called McDonald being told they couldn't use their own name...
Burger King is known as Hungry Jacks in Australia, as the name was being used by a small burger bar there when the American giant arrived, they took the owner to court and lost , hence Hungry Jacks
Harrods (London) had a go at a shop in NZ a while back of the same name (a chemist I think - something completely unrelated to the Harrods anyway) - in protest the entire town renamed all the shops to Harrods for a day :)
Also, a restaurant in the South Island was called McDonalds (as that was the owner's name) and McDs tried to sue him - failed miserably :D
Hurrah for the little guy ;D