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Bigred
08-06-2013, 02:10 PM
Not in the way they wanted... Read #4

http://www.cracked.com/article_20559_the-6-most-ridiculous-things-people-claimed-to-legally-own.html

a small excerpt:


But in 1987 -- more than half a century after the sci-fi world had combined the chocolate of "space" with the peanut butter of "marines" -- Games Workshop published a science fiction strategy game called Warhammer 40,000. One of the character classes in it was called "space marine," which Games Workshop quickly trademarked. From that moment forward, anyone else publishing a sci-fi tabletop game had to fill it with space seamen instead. Or something.
Defenestratus
08-06-2013, 02:30 PM
Not in the way they wanted... Read #4

http://www.cracked.com/article_20559_the-6-most-ridiculous-things-people-claimed-to-legally-own.html

a small excerpt:

Thats hilarious!
Rev. Tiberius Jackhammer
08-06-2013, 02:46 PM
hehehehehehe
Lexington
08-06-2013, 03:10 PM
Heh, they didn't even mention the part about how GW had to take down their own Facebook page, because their P.R. strategy is not to have a P.R. strategy.
pauljc
08-07-2013, 02:49 AM
No, they took it down because whiney douchenozzles were overloading the interwebs, and Tim Berners-Lee kindly asked them to take it down, lest the world fall into chaos and ruin.
Gir
08-07-2013, 03:53 AM
Heh, they didn't even mention the part about how GW had to take down their own Facebook page, because their P.R. strategy is not to have a P.R. strategy.

They also didn't mention the part where GW was targeting people using "Space Marine" as proper noun, of which they own the Trademark for.
eldargal
08-07-2013, 03:59 AM
Yep. The other are far more stupid too, particularly the Haagen Dasz one.
Ravingbantha
08-07-2013, 08:25 AM
Lets not forget they also trade marked the word Exarch, which is actually a title from the Byzantine empire.
Gir
08-07-2013, 04:19 PM
Lets not forget they also trade marked the word Exarch, which is actually a title from the Byzantine empire.

So? People trademark words that have exists for centuries all the time. Trademark is around context.
Aegwymourn
08-07-2013, 06:59 PM
I'm surprised that when Wizard's of the Coast tried to trademark the word "Dragon" didn't make the list. I think it was Wizards... whoever owned Dungeons and Dragons at the time.