So I Invented a "Word"

[MattCo]

You should have named your team something with Monster in the title, then let Monster Cable show you how word trademarking is really done.

-MC

 

[squeeg22]

Originally posted by: tarheelmm
You can copyright a phrase like Michael Buffer(?)

Lets Get Teady to Ruuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmbbbbbbbbbblllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Pat Riley trademarked the phrase "three-peat" during the 1980's Lakers Championship seasons. They lost and never won the third. It wasn't until the Bulls pulled off the feat twice in the 90's did he start to make any money.

Snopes.com

 

[PHiuR]

Originally posted by: TheLonelyPhoenix

Originally posted by: TheSiege
ok here it is, our buddy came into our apartment as we were playing one night, and says, you know
you guys are a bunch of "HaloSexuals". and we have used the name since. you dont have to like it, but we do

You have to be kidding me.

I hope you trip in a puddle of feces and crack your skull open.

roger, that name isnt that great.

 

Go ahead and trademark it. I'm sure it would cost more than sum of your entire teams yearly allowance.

 

[cheapgoose]

i feel bad for the idiots who actually copied your team name.

 

[Colt45]

Originally posted by: MattCo
You should have named your team something with Monster in the title, then let Monster Cable show you how word trademarking is really done.

-MC

:thumbsup:😀


edit:
HaloSexuals is a ban worthy name.

Actually, you should probably be banned from LIFE for using it. Mass suicide to the whole team, by law.

 

[skace]

Yea well, I used to think skace was pretty damn original, considering I made it up. Then I found out that it was a word in some random ass foreign language. It happens.

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: element
Hey when I first logged on to the intarweb back in the 90s (96 or somewhere around there give or take a year or so) I was the only dude with the nickname element. I got it off a book titled Elements of Electromagnetics that was sitting on my desk. After a while I started to see it ever friggin where on the internet, everyone and his grandmother stole my name.

Think I give a sh!t? I felt 2 things:
1. Pity for the unimaginitive unoriginal fvcks and
2. Flattered. Like they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

But then I wasn't a whiney little bitch like you with no life outside of the intarweb (or in your case your goofy useless clan with a gay name.)

That's nothing. I've been using "nakedfrog" since 98 (full name is "naked frog with a mallet"), and kept checking on the domain name status. It was usually down, but was generally just a crappy Duke Nukem related website or something.
One day a few years ago, it suddenly became a gay porn site 🙁

sooooo, you run a gay porn site, eh?

 

[shilala]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Motion to have TheSiege change his name to Syringer2

SPIDER 2!!!!!

 

[shilala]

From personal experience...
You can own a word, kind of. Ebay owns the word "bay" as it relates to online or electronic auctions.
It is their intellectual property.
Anyone calling an online auction or electrically generated auction (goes for tv and radio as well) something that has the word "bay" in it are subject to the threat of being pounded with ebay's 6 foot dick.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: element
Hey when I first logged on to the intarweb back in the 90s (96 or somewhere around there give or take a year or so) I was the only dude with the nickname element. I got it off a book titled Elements of Electromagnetics that was sitting on my desk. After a while I started to see it ever friggin where on the internet, everyone and his grandmother stole my name.

Think I give a sh!t? I felt 2 things:
1. Pity for the unimaginitive unoriginal fvcks and
2. Flattered. Like they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

But then I wasn't a whiney little bitch like you with no life outside of the intarweb (or in your case your goofy useless clan with a gay name.)

That's nothing. I've been using "nakedfrog" since 98 (full name is "naked frog with a mallet"), and kept checking on the domain name status. It was usually down, but was generally just a crappy Duke Nukem related website or something.
One day a few years ago, it suddenly became a gay porn site 🙁

sooooo, you run a gay porn site, eh?

Why, you want a discount? 😉
If I did run one, it would be gay, but there wouldn't be any men on it 😛

 

[sandorski]

Coles Notes:

1) OP says Someone stole balah blah blah, a (undisclosed)"Name/Word", blah blah

2) [many Posts] "Tell us the "Word"

3) [Original Poster] (silence)

4) [more posts] "You suck for not telling us"

5) HaloSexuals

6) "You just plain Suck" (Reason X(HaloSexuals))

7) [NakedFrog] (made so much Gay Porn he had to setup a website)

8) etc

 

[Nikamichi]

Originally posted by: sandorski
Coles Notes:

1) OP says Someone stole balah blah blah, a (undisclosed)"Name/Word", blah blah

2) [many Posts] "Tell us the "Word"

3) [Original Poster] (silence)

4) [more posts] "You suck for not telling us"

5) HaloSexuals

6) "You just plain Suck" (Reason X(HaloSexuals))

7) [NakedFrog] (made so much Gay Porn he had to setup a website)

8) etc

:thumbsup:

 

[BooGiMaN]

man what a let down

kind of like when you see a woman walking down the street with a bootylicious ass and your thinking to yourself damn baby turn around so i can see that face...and when they do its like aahhhhh the goggles they do nothing!!!!!


so in other words you suck your team sucks and your 'word' suckety suck sucks

 

[Papagayo]

How about Halocopter, Halo betty, Halopottamas, etc...

 

[CptObvious]

I'm not a lawyer (yet), but I've taken about 4 classes so far related to trademarks. You can't patent it because it's not a useful invention, and you can't copyright words. You can trademark it, but only if it's being used in commerce. If you are using in commerce, you have common law trademark rights but to really get meaningful enforceable rights you need to pay a few thousand dollars to register the mark. If you're just using it as your clan name, then you can't prevent others from taking it, sorry.

 

[Wallydraigle]

God, I'm so wasted right now I had trouble typing this.

 

[Glendor]

Originally posted by: TheSiege
ok here it is, our buddy came into our apartment as we were playing one night, and says, you know
you guys are a bunch of "HaloSexuals". and we have used the name since. you dont have to like it, but we do

Siege,
You can rest assured that neither I, nor my friends, relatives, or pets will ever use your word and I will do everything in my power to ignore/deny/forget that your word ever existed. Just make it go away! away...[/i]

That's a promise,
Glendor...

 

[Glendor]

Originally posted by: KC5AV
Change your name to The superdy-duper-one-and-only-original-HALOSEXUALS. That should remove all confusion.

Maybe he could use The team formerly know as the HaloSexuals

 

[daveymark]

That was a waste of 5 minutes. Someone edit their first posts with cliffs notes so no one has to read this garbage.

 

[jjones]

Are you sure it's not "bird"? Because I heard bird was the word. Everybody's heard about the bird. Bird bird bird, bird is the word. 😛