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Old 08-19-2006, 07:32 AM  
Juilan
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Originally Posted by WiredGuy
Phonetic misspellings are covered under trademark law
WG
Yes quite aware of that, but then they have to demonstrate Bloxbuster is even an uncommon mispelling.
Which according to overture and wordtracker, it does not even warrant 1 single search a day wordwide.

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/su...ter&country=us

Trademark and Intellectual property lawyers work on billable hours to the client often at $250 per hour. What you have here is an overzealous attorney making a spurious and frivolous case to pad his billable hours.
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