[VoiceOfBruck]

If anybody else tries to use the word "of," they'll be hearing from my legal department!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

the

[1rudeboy]

inside inside inside inside inside inside

There, I feel better now.

[jae471]

McDonalds owns "Smile" ®

[Constitution Day]

In previous years Intel has tried to establish lasting trademarks for letters of the alphabet - "i" - and for numbers e.g. 486.

How about Porsche's use of the "9xx" series... 911, 928, 944, 968, etc.?
Is that not a trademark?

[Harrison Bergeron]

I've registered the trademark for the symbol " ® " From now on it will have to be shown as " ® ^® " Coca-Cola, McDonald's, GE, Intel.... meet my attorneys! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[Zathras]

The story of Intel vs AMD is a long one full of 1/2 truths on both sides.
The trash printed by The Register is just trash and full of insider information which is seldom correct.

The issue of trademarks is one which is fought daly by all corporations as if you fail to protect it, you loose it. Based on a court decision, this is WHY Intel couldn't trademark 80486 or i486.

BTW, the word "Athlon" is trademarked by a bathroom partion manufacture to which I'm sure AMD is working hard to resolve.

[Fabozz]

"Then it tried to trademark the expression 'map inside'. Big mistake."

I hate the stupid trademark games corporations play, but in this case I say "live by the sword, die by the sword." What rational person would try to trademark "map inside"?! It's an envelope... there's a map inside it... how else are you supposed to say it? "Contains cartographic document!" "Navigational aid within!"

In other stupid trademark news, I found out Sunday that U-Haul® has trademarked In-Town^TM. That's right, if your move takes you from one house inside the city limits to another, it's an "In-Town^TM" move, and thus if you use anyone but U-Haul® you have to pay a royalty. ;-)

Still, nothing will ever hold a candle to Lucasfilm®'s trademarking of Nazi^TM.