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December 2007

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• 12.16.07
  mezone
  Internet, Electronics (0)

  On December 5, 2007, Sony Electronics filed to protect the trademark mezone in relation to an all-encompassing home television and entertainment system featuring an array of hardware and services. Paraphrasing slightly from the filing, Sony mezone encompasses: "computer hardware, set top boxes, remote controls, and computer software and peripherals, namely audio and video receivers and transmitters and computer software programs enabling receipt, download, playing, personalized and interactive viewing, and rental of audio and video programming through the use of internet connections to computer hardware, receiver and transmitter apparatuses that connect to a television set or monitor"; "computer software for uploading, manipulating, and ...
  
  
• 12.11.07
  Worst Word Mashup Trademark Filings
  Top Eleven (0)

  PORNLYWEDS - Evans Entertainment Corporation Pornographic scenarios involving newlyweds or performers acting as newlyweds? "Let's try it again, only can you act a little more like you just got married? And...ACTION!" ENTREMANEUR - Charting New Courses, Inc. Entrepreneurs who also happen to be men? Mork would suggest choosing a name that doesn't sound like "manure". BLINGKINI - Isabella Valentina, LLC Bikinis featuring shiny, expensive-looking decorations? How very Keeping Up with the Kardasians. KIDFETTI - The Centers, Inc. Confetti made especially for kids? Yeah, 'cause that adult confetti is too mature and will corrupt their fragile little minds. AUTHORPRENEURSHIP - John Rizzo, Individual The state of being an entrepreneur who ...
  
  
• 12.11.07
  reality.tv
  Internet (0)

  On November 29, 2007, American television production company Vin Di Bona Productions filed to protect the trademark reality.tv in relation to an "entertainment website, display of video clips and user generated content and provision of opportunities to develop audio-visual entertainment for all media from user generated content". Vin Di Bona Productions is best known for its popular show America's Funniest Home Videos. The applicant is actually listed as "Johnny Lindy DBA Vin Di Bona Productions". Di Bona was known as Johnny Lindy as a teenager and had a brief career as a musician in New England in the 1960s. A little odd ...
  
  
• 12.10.07
  Sierra Mist Undercover Orange
  Food (0)

  On December 4, 2007, Coca-Cola arch-nemesis PepsiCo, Inc. filed to protect the trademark Sierra Mist Undercover Orange for a soft drink. They also filed to protect the trademark Sierra Mist Free Undercover Orange for the diet version of the same soda. Soft drink fans can add this to Sierra Mist Mojito Splash, a new Sierra Mist soft drink flavor Pepsi is taste testing with a possible 2008 release. Mork suspects that Sierra Mist Undercover Orange will soon appear on this page: orange soft drink. Read more: timesunion.com - Sierra Mist goes undercover orange
  
  
• 12.08.07
  MorganTrade
  Finance (0)

  On November 30, 2007, financial services firm JPMorgan Chase & Co. filed to protect the trademark MorganTrade in relation to "financial services, namely, online pre-trade and execution services". Mork can also report that the domain name morgantrade.com (currently inactive) has been registered by JPMorgan Chase & Co.
  
  
• 12.07.07
  Not safe for work
  Internet (0)

  Update: Trademork post (this one) sparks a flurry of posts (below), a front-page Digg story and a response from Fark about the trademark registration. Muhahaha. _____ On November 28, 2007, social networking news site Fark.com filed to protect the trademark Not safe for work in relation to "entertainment services, namely, providing a website featuring photographic, audio, video and prose presentations featuring comedic captions regarding current events and online discussions and/or reviews of web materials of an adult nature". The phrase "not safe for work" (NSFW) refers to the tag used to mark URLs or hyperlinks that may be sexually explicit or include audio ...
  
  
• 12.05.07
  Dreamcast
  Games (0)

  Update: Trademork post (this one) causes online rumor explosion (links below), a front-page Digg story and a response from Sega confirming that no Dreamcast 2 is in the works. Mork is sad. _____ On August 13, 2007, video game developer Sega Corporation filed a new application to protect the trademark Dreamcast. While the existing Dreamcast filing for the same class and codes is still active, the new filing relates to: "home video game machines; player-operated electronic controllers for electronic video game machines; video game interactive controller, namely, hand held pads, and floor pads or mats; joysticks for video games; computer cursor control devices, ...
  
  
• 12.01.07
  SoundUnwound
  Internet (0)

  On November 26, 2007, Amazon.com subsidiary Internet Movie Database, Inc. (IMDb) filed to protect the trademark SoundUnwound in relation to "social networking services for music enthusiasts". Additional filings cover: "providing and streaming information...in the field of music, music community, songs, artists, albums, films, lyrics, graphics, animation and multimedia presentations"; "providing on-line electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among computer users concerning general news and information regarding entertainment, music, music community, songs, artists, albums, films, lyrics, graphics, animation and multimedia presentations, videos and dvds"; and... "online retail store services...featuring music, songs, albums, lyrics, graphics, animation and multimedia presentations, and other audiovisual or musical works". Mork ...
  
  

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