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Originally Posted by GatorB
...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...
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Correct. And the USPTO is far stricter than Network Solutions (a different company than the current one) back in the day ever was with forbidding such domain names ... with the USPTO, I could not one single exception - they are stubborn about not allowing such words through.
Cybernet should brand a line called "Fuxing Machines" and try to TM that...
One company already successfully (though it's since been canceled due to no section 8 filing) TMed "Fuxing" - claimed it was translation of Chinese characters for "rich" and "flourishing"
Ron