Comments on: 7 Famous Phrases Famous People Own

By: avid reader

avid reader — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:05:00 +0000

Caroline,

Your story was all about trademarks, why did you say the USC students got a “copyright infringement” notice? don’t you think it was a “trademark infringement” notice?

Anyone curious to know if a mark has been registered in the U.S. can look it up on the trademark office’s website.

There you will see that GOOD NIGHT MY SWEET ANNA BABY was not registered as a trademark, though an application was filed. The application is abandoned.

By: Ray Trygstad

Ray Trygstad — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:13:04 +0000

The trademark on Three-Peat should never have been allowed, because in order to register a trademark you must prove use in commerce. Since they didn’t win the “three-peat” it was not used and should not have been registerable.

By: giants fan

giants fan — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:26:38 +0000

How about the Patriots trying to get “perfect season”?

By: nana

nana — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:20:02 +0000

what about Merry Christmas? or achoo?

By: kevin

kevin — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:31:42 +0000

I think “The Donald” was trying to trademark “You’re fired!” Can anyone confirm?

By: Molly W.

Molly W. — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:34:41 +0000

or maybe Conan O’Brien should attempt to trademark his “How bout a nice tall glass of Shut-Up Juice?”. I can see that being used for a myriad of products.

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:39:01 +0000

Does anyone own the rights to “That’s a bowl full of awesomenesstastic, minus the bowl” ??

Cha-ching!!!!!!!!!!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:13:08 +0000

Is “Bam!” really a phrase? If so, then don’t forget the word “Word” being trademarked by Microsoft. You might be inclined to sue, but they’ve also trademarked the word “Money.”

Ralph, the Seahawks eventually settled with A&M last year. I believe they admitted no wrongdoing and chose to pay an undisclosed amount in order to license the right to use “The 12th Man” phrase into the foreseeable future.

By: texag

texag — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:09:15 +0000

Texas A&M ended up with a nice settlement and the Seahawks are supposed to acknowledge the trademark whenever they use the ‘12th man’ phrase. Not sure what they’re going to do since every other NFL seems to want to swipe the tradition to describe their fan base…

By: donner

donner — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:30:20 +0000

Fixedgear – you have me CRACKING UP at your phrase…I see tshirts, bumper stickers, koozies, keychains with that phrase…its perfect!