I didn't realize that contractions were considered two words. I don't know why they would be, or where it would count or even matter, but there you have it.
It's as if they're some kind of attention seekers.
This would be good for one of Reed's Onion articles: "Couple that dresses in Victorian costumes and rides penny-farthings wonders what everyone's staring at."
How can a single word have "blanket protection" for all uses in trademark issues?
(Weren't Micros*ft shown the door when they tried to get protection for the word "bookcase" some years ago?)
"Nonsense" is one word for it. I'd have probably gone with something a bit less pre-watershed. I get very cross about that sort of thing. It's the privatisation of our very language. I despise Specsavers, all other businesses which pull the same kind of crap, and all IP lawyers, legislators, policy makers and other lackeys who support their nauseating grabs of public property to the prejudice of all competing and potentially competing businesses. Shame on them all.
Canada is the best. People trespass. You just go: "Oh well, look at the currents. They probably didn't mean that. Let's fish them out of the water, don't be a dick about documentation, and bring them safely back from where they came. Are you cold? Here, have the shirt that I happen to be wearing."
Yup...it's our old cross-the-road neighbours. Police have just confirmed the identity of the shooter. It's one of their sons. The same son who was arrested as the Fake Beard Bandit 8 years ago. He was 27 then, 35 now. I just hope his mother wasn't one of the victims.
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