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Originally posted 2007-04-04 23:38:57. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
The headline: “Canada to trademark [sic] ‘winter’ for 2010 Olympics.”
The funny thing is I thought they already had a pretty good monopoly on winter!
October 28th, 2007 at 10:32 am
[...] We kid Canada here from time to time. Maybe it’s because that’s where all the cold weather comes from. But mostly because they seem to have governmental units that are going a little nuts about trademarks. We have that here, a little, but I don’t know — these Canadian stories are troubling! [...]