{"id":90,"date":"2007-07-11T19:32:30","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T19:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/forestforthetrees\/2007\/07\/11\/hey-thats-our-word\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T19:32:30","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T19:32:30","slug":"hey-thats-our-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/forestforthetrees\/2007\/07\/11\/hey-thats-our-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey that’s our word…"},"content":{"rendered":"

One part of my day job is checking on any possible misuse of the company’s registered trademarks. As part of that process I set up a Google Alert for one of the trademarks; which is made up of two fairly common words compounded into a single new word.<\/p>\n

When I do get hits its usually people in a similar area of business who have just run the two words together because it "looks cool" rather than any real attempt to misrepresent themselves. (Although there are a few of those around).<\/p>\n

Today I got a hit marked as coming from Dark Horse Comics<\/a> !<\/p>\n

Turns out that one of the registered trademarks was included in their solicitation copy for the manga PATH OF THE ASSASSIN VOLUME 10.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now the usual "cease and desist" notice may be taking it a little too far – but some free comics in recompense? – That may be worth a try. \"Wink\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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