By Ron ColemanThe NFL is a lot of things, but I never thought it was stupid. It turns out that it isn’t. The Sports Blog
reports:
Remember that stupid effort by the NFL to trademark the phrase “Big Game,” even though everyone knows the phrase has, for more than a century, been used referring to the Cal-Stanford rivalry?
Well, the NFL has dropped its bid.
UPDATE: “Repeat after me: TRADEMARKS ARE NOT “WORD PATENTS”
Ron Coleman
[…] Quelle: LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION […]
On this side of the Mississippi (East) the Big Game is uniformly known as the Ohio State v. Michigan game. Never knew of a Cal-Stanford rivalry and I make sure to get a healthy dose of ESPN on a semi-regular basis
“Trademarks are not word patents”. Well said. I like the sound of that. If they were, the value of the word patent that you created would be quite high indeed.