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GatorB · 06-27-2008, 01:32 AM

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Cybernet?s request met the government?s most preliminary standard: No one else was using the word ?fuckingmachines.? But it didn?t clear another, more important hurdle: The patent office believes the word ?fuck? is ?scandalous,? and won?t allow Cybernet owner Peter Acworth to trademark it, or any variation of it.
?Registration is refused because the proposed mark consists of or comprises immoral or scandalous matter,? wrote Michael Engel, the attorney who reviewed the case for the government. ?The term ?fucking? is an offensive and vulgar reference to the act of sex. ? A mark that is deemed scandalous ... is not registrable.?

06-27-2008, 01:32 AM
GatorB The Demon & 12clicks Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: SallyRand is a FAGGOT Posts: 18,208	http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/11...e-cant-tr.html Cybernet?s request met the government?s most preliminary standard: No one else was using the word ?fuckingmachines.? But it didn?t clear another, more important hurdle: The patent office believes the word ?fuck? is ?scandalous,? and won?t allow Cybernet owner Peter Acworth to trademark it, or any variation of it. ?Registration is refused because the proposed mark consists of or comprises immoral or scandalous matter,? wrote Michael Engel, the attorney who reviewed the case for the government. ?The term ?fucking? is an offensive and vulgar reference to the act of sex. ? A mark that is deemed scandalous ... is not registrable.?