Vision? Nary!

In Chardmanistan Chardman opines:

My grandpa always told me not to interfere in a fight between a trendy sex writer and a pornstar, so I don’t have dog in this fight, per se….

I do. Because I and the pornstar are both fellow alumni of TESC I am sworn to her side in any fight involving trademark, lawsuits, plagues of locusts, or Writ of Certiorari.

Besides, always side with the pornstar. This is clear polite etiquette. Sex-writers are dime-a-dozen. Unpersons even. After all, when a popular site deletes all links to a person and it takes a year for anyone to notice…
It is not a tragedy therefore, but a farce. (According to Marxism, this then is the second time around.)

When you trademark a color and sue over it you become a pariah. Especially when you try to market yourself with buzzwords like “open source.” Let this be a lesson to other trendy poseurs.

Bump of old post:

Trademark weasels

A few years ago Archie comics declared they owned the name “Veronica.” A common name that predates them by… a couple thousand years.

A company called Orange claims they own the color Orange.
T-Mobile claims they own the rights to the color Magenta.

Trite, boring “sex writer” Violet Blue claims she owns the moniker “Violet Blue” and has filed a lawsuit against the other Violet Blue. The other Violet Blue is an adult movie performer who started appearing in films back in 1999. That’s the previous century for you kids. Violet Blue (the trite, boring one) claims a trademark on the words Violet Blue. A recent one. She is seeking monetary “damages” over the use of the name.

Violet Blue sounds like a crayon color. Perhaps Crayola will get in on the sue-happy bandwagon.

I am not choosing sides based on the fact that the defendant is local and we share the same alma mater; rather on sound principles.

Violet Blue is a color. It is not trade-markable.
Violet Blue (not the trite, boring one) has been making films for eight years. In fact, she’s semi-retired, running her website from WA state and no longer making films.

This is trademark abuse. Bullying of the little guy. Where is the geek outrage?