By Ron Coleman
German designer Wolfgang Joop’s bid to have a punctuation mark trademarked [sic] for his Joop! clothing and perfume company has been denied by European Union judges. Joop applied to register two versions of an exclamation point: the first is a simple exclamation and the other is inside a rectangular frame.
Can’t blame him for trying!
Say — maybe he can get a registration for WRITING IN ALL CAPS INSTEAD?!
An emphatic "NO" to JOOP!'s punctuation grab — on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® http://bit.ly/1O7DlD
LIKELY / CONFUSION An emphatic NO!:
Chatty Kathy:
German designer Wolfgang Joop’s bid to hav.. http://bit.ly/nUEp7