{"id":197801,"date":"2008-01-10T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/10\/morons-unclear-on-trademark\/"},"modified":"2008-01-10T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T22:55:00","slug":"morons-unclear-on-trademark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/10\/morons-unclear-on-trademark\/","title":{"rendered":"Morons Unclear on Trademark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The teenage entrepreneur screwing this up I can understand, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lohud.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/artikkel?NoCache=1&amp;Dato=20080110&amp;Kategori=NEWS01&amp;Lopenr=801100387&amp;Ref=AR\">the reporter completely screwed the pooch on this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A kid makes jewelry called &#8220;change rocks&#8221;, and Obama has a concert series called &#8220;change rocks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The kid has no right to do <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">anything<\/span> with regard to trademark.  Quoting the Wiki, &#8220;Trademark law is designed to fulfill the public policy objective of consumer protection, by preventing the public from being misled as to the origin or quality of a product or service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So if there is no potential consumer confusion, there is no harm, no foul.<\/p>\n<p>Obama can&#8217;t sell jewelry, but he could do T-shirts, bumper stickers, etc.  My guess is that his concern is about his Google ranking, or an attempt at free publicity.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t care, and neither should Obama.  Tough luck, kid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The teenage entrepreneur screwing this up I can understand, but the reporter completely screwed the pooch on this one. A kid makes jewelry called &#8220;change rocks&#8221;, and Obama has a concert series called &#8220;change rocks&#8221;. The kid has no right to do anything with regard to trademark. Quoting the Wiki, &#8220;Trademark law is designed to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1109,978,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-ip","category-politics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}