[Angelino97]

1. Trademarks can be challenged. I wish I were a billionaire. I'd hired top attorneys to challenge this, just to hassle these guys with lawfare.

2. Imagine if a white person had registered "Black Lives Matter." Would it be respected? Would there be riots? Demands for its return plus reparations? Would the Patent & Trademark Office cancel or transfer the trademark?

[Brian Griffin]

I suspect they weren’t the first to use the term.

[Brian Griffin]

Trademarks have to be used or they will get lost.

[Brian Griffin]

Caucasian Lives Matter!

Lite Tan Lives Matter!

[xp38]

Who owns All Lives Matter? Caucasian Lives Matter. Fleshtone Lives Matter Creamy White Lives Matter.

[Olog-hai]

Hmm. Isn’t that “cybersquatting”, to a degree?

[lightman]

B urn
L oot &
M urder

should be RICO’d if there were truly liberty AND JUSTICE for all!

[jz638]

They admitted on their radio show that they were squatting on the trademark not to protect intellectual property, but to keep others from profitting. I’m not going to say that this practice is illegal, but i will say that someone of Kanye’s means can probably find a lawyer to challenge the trademark and compel them to defend it.

This is bad on an absolute scale because it deliberately stifles creativity, but it is also stuff corporate america (and the left) does all the time to harrass, bankrupt, and stifle their competition and their opposition.

[Bob434]

The power of a single letter =

White Olives matter

[KrisKrinkle]

'Those phrases are all piggybacking off of black people's creativity and efforts, so we're all for helping to use this as a measure to allow black people to retain a little bit of ownership,' he added.

Whose creativity and efforts are they piggybacking off of when they are radio hosts?

[Angelino97]

Actually, I now realize the trademark was merely "registered" on October 3.

But trademark and patents are not like copyrights. Mere registration doesn't grant any rights. I think registering a trademark only begins the review process, which can take a year or more, and can be dismissed for any number of reasons.

Any Intellectual Property attorneys here?

[cuz1961]

This person who first procured it didn’t really love owning it, because the purpose was not necessarily to get rich off of it; the purpose was to make sure that other people didn’t get rich off of that pain,’ Ja told the news site Capital B.

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Absolute lie.

Commie punkass lie.

[Falconspeed]

Trademarking “White Lives Matter” is stupid. They are probably dumb enough to trademark “Black Tires Roll” and “Blenders Need Water”

[batazoid]

“White Life Matters,” there, all fixed.

[Lazamataz]

Luckily, I own the Trademark for THIS:

NO LIVES MATTER^™

[UnwashedPeasant]

This is fake news. The mark is not "Registered." They filed an application for registration. Before registration, the application has to be examined and approved for publication by the trademark office (USPTO). If the mark is approved by the USPTO, there will be a 1-month opposition period where anyone with standing can challenge the registrability of the mark.

Kayne West used the mark before they did, which gives him priority and seniority. In the U.S., trademark rights come from usage under common law. The first party to use the mark has priority. Third parties cannot hijack someone else's mark that is already in use in commerce by beating them to the USPTO. Registration has value, but common law rights are more important.

The type of application filed by the activists is 1B ("intent to use"), which requires a bona fide intent to use the mark in commerce. You cannot file a mark just to squat on it or stop others from using it.

Here is a link to the application: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=97617868

Some other marks applied for include:

• WITHOUT WHITE LIVES AMERICA WOULD NOT MATTER
• BLACK-AND-WHITE LIVES SAVING LIVES, "IT'S THE MOVEMENT THAT MATTERS!"
• WHEN YOU SAY THAT ALL LIVES MATTER, WHILE REFUSING TO SAY OR ADMIT THAT BLACK LIVES ALSO MATTER, YOU ARE INTENTIONALLY MISSING THE POINT UNLESS THERE'S DOCUMENTED PROOF OF MILLIONS OF WHITE LIVES STOLEN FROM THEIR NATIVE HOMELAND BY COWARDLY BLACK MEN. MAYBE YOU HAVE PROOF OF WHITE LIVES SHACKLED TOGETHER IN CARGO HOLDS OF AWFUL SLAVE SHIPS, BEING BARELY FED & SOMETIMES FED TO SHARKS BEFORE BEING FORCED INTO & THROUGH THE HORRORS OF AMERICAN SLAVERY FOR CENTURIES BY BLACK MEN. MAYBE YOU HAVE PROOF OF WHITE LIVES BEING DENIED THEIR RIGHTS TO VOTE, OR COUNTLESS STORIES, MEMORIES, PICTURES OR VIDEOS OF WHITE LIVES BEING BEATEN, TERRORIZED, MURDERED, BURNED, LYNCHED, RAPED, CASTRATED & DECAPITATED BY BLACK MEN & BLACK LYNCH MOBS WHENEVER THEY FELT LIKE COWARDING UNDER BLACK HOODS & BLACK SHEETS, ONLY TO BE EXONERATED BY ALL BLACK JURIES OF THEIR PEERS & FRIENDS IF THEY WERE CAUGHT & CHARGED AT ALL.
• IF ALL LIVES MATTER, WHITE PRIVILEGE WOULDN'T EXIST
• UNEDUCATED WHITE LIVES MATTER
• RED WHITE AND BLUE LIVES MATTER

[one guy in new jersey]

Chances are the listener filed a so-called “intent to use” application for a federal trademark, that the listener had never sold anything bearing that mark, and that neither the listener nor the person(s) to whom the listener transferred ownership of the mark day has sold a single article bearing that mark to this day

So, yeah, the so-called trademark is probably invalid.

[bigbob]

To be honest I’m more pink than white anyway...how about Beige Lives Matter?

[aquila48]

Bookmark

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Five years from now they will be has-beens. The Negro gimmick won't sell anymore. On to a new gimmick.

[Jaysin]

Eventually Ja and Ward will realize they can make millions selling WLM apparal......and they’ll do it.

The media hacks will get their “10% for the big guy” to generate free hysterics (publicity) while Ja and Ward reap the benefits of capitalism.