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U.S. trademark registration 4,473,631 was issued to one Paul Ingrisano, aka "Pi Productions Corp" of New York. In January, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office gave Ingrisano a trademark on the symbol π. pi followed by a period: a design Ingrisano uses on T-shirts sold at some brick-and-mortar stores.
When Ingrisano discovered that California-based print-on-demand outlet Zazzle offered an array of clothing items that featured the symbol pi, he had his attorney send the company a strongly-worded cease-and-desist letter this month demanding their removal.
"This would be like McDonalds claiming the letter M as a trademark," wrote Jez Kemp, whose Zazzle store offers apparel imagining pi dressed in a pirate costume. "The trademark is in the combination of style and symbol, not the symbol itself."
Attorney Millet defends the cease-and-desist letter. He says that to his knowledge none of the designs sold through Zazzle included the exact trademark π. -- pi followed by a period -- but some of them were confusingly similar to his client's design.
In 2011, Ingrisano attempted to trademark "I<3" artnet reports, which was "published for opposition" in June 2013. Reebok's intellectual property watchdogs claimed in a December 14, 2013 "Notice of Opposition" that "I<3" is too close to comfort to its own "I3" trademark.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday June 04 2014, @01:53AM
I'm going to double down on the asleep at the wheel statement. What will finally impress this cynic over here is when we have a 10 million man march on the White House to protest *anything*. It's not like we don't have a laundry list of extremely valid grievances that have nothing to do with religion. So many problems that are bipartisan really, but the Democratic and Republican leaders keep people fighting amongst themselves. It's not bipartisan at all, and it's just the elites effectively hiding behind strong appeals to emotion while Congress is forced to provide service to a much larger and varied group where might makes right as a matter of principle. Who has the most money...
Well.... that sounds like being asleep. If you had any critical thinking skills at all you would give the finger to both of them and be on the way to march on the capitol. Or worse... the moment you get everyone together the devolve into a bunch of drunk retarded monkeys flinging their poo and the movement is hijacked by people who pull a Kanye and "I'm gonna let you finish". It's all just a bunch of screaming back and forth that solves nothing.
I would see a huge amount of us get together in solidarity with a strict agreement to keep it to only Net Neutrality, or only the dismantling of the NSA and the intelligence apparatus of the US that has done orders more damage to our economy than terrorists over the next 10 years.
That many people in the room, while somewhat admirable doesn't impress me or the city council. What would impress them is having the police tell them that they brought in extra officers to handle the parking and traffic and that 5,000 people are outside the building. When a member of the council has a tangible problem getting home physically, they might take it seriously.
As for the EFF, I meant a mark WRT to their logo. I'm in full agreement about the three letters not being deserving of a mark. Personally, I don't think letters themselves are deserving of protection as they can be used to stifle free speech.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.