Best Laid Plans: Palin Tries To Trademark Her Name, But Little Details Cause Problems
You know, when you have a multi-media empire you're trying to build--a basic cable "reality" show, books, lecture circuits, Fox News contributor status--you gotta protect the brand. You don't want people making porn or tacky merchandise hurting your brand. Now some people may say that horse is already out of the barn, and at the hands of those closest to you, but let's give Palin credit for thinking ahead to her possible presidential run.
Except...
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's bid to trademark her name and that of her daughter, Bristol, ran into trouble at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office because the application forms were unsigned, government records show.
Applications to trademark the names Sarah Palin and Bristol Palin, both for "motivational speaking services," were filed on November 5 by the Palins' longtime family attorney, Thomas Van Flein, but were quickly slapped down by a trademark examiner.
"Registration is refused because the applied-for mark, SARAH PALIN, consists of a name identifying a particular living individual whose consent to register the mark is not of record," the patent agency said in an office action.
"Please note this refusal will be withdrawn if applicant provides written consent from the individual identified in the applied-for mark," the patent office said.
The office also said Palin's application failed to show that her name had been used in commerce and could also be rejected on those grounds.
This is a person who thinks she should be given the nuclear launch codes and she can't even remember to sign a petition protecting her own name? Methinks little details elude the half-governor just a wee too often for comfort.
But if she (or her obviously crack legal staff) manage to get their act together and successfully trademark her name, we'll have to find a new name for her...I'm partial to Sarah WordSalad, but Blue Gal is lobbying for Grifty McQuitter. Your thoughts?
Addendum: Bristol's burgeoning career as a "motivational speaker" seems to have a hit a speedbump or two, thanks to actress Kate Walsh and students at Washington University in St. Louis. Maybe trademarking shouldn't be Bristol's first priority either.
Wow, half way through the process . . .
Does she actually do or finish anything?
lol
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
What are all the other people on the planet with the same name (poor thangs) supposed to do if she gets this trademark. Does that mean she owns them? Or do they have to change their names to avoid her filing a lawsuit?
Mama Grizzly on the Grift
...EX-governor sarah palin.
EX- as in former, no longer, quit the job, is no longer governor, SHE IS AN EX-governor!
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Half Term Sarah.
Sara Palin, a skid-mark on the American body politic.
A giant skid mark upon the entire country .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Just change Sarah to $arah.
NickDanger007
"Loyalty to country, always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it." -- Mark Twain
i guess the trademark would have been approved if she
had included the sub-script, "half-term quitter governor"
or "i pimp my children"
since when can you trademark trailer trash?
Trailer trash? Srsly?
I would like to submit "Sarah Plain and Small"
Maybe some of her so-called supporters are just having a good laugh. If I had extra, I send her a few $$$ and hope she keeps on opening her pie-hole.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
it is clear that the attorney who filed the application on behalf of Palin doesn't know jack about trademarks. Forgetting the signature of the applicant when registering that person's name is something no trademark professional would do.
But even more egregious is the specimen submitted for the class 35 services. First off, the first use date provided is January 1, 1996 for providing a website featuring information about political issues. I seriously doubt Sarah Palin even had a website in 1996, so if that is the case, the first use date is wrong, if not blatantly dishonest. Second, as noted in the office action issued against the application, the specimen does not even show her own web site but rather a Foxnews.com article announcing that she was joining them as a contributor. While foxnews.com probably did exist in January of 1996, she can't ride on Fox's website as use by her.
What will likely happen is that Palin will submit her written consent to have her name registered as a trademark. She will also have to amend her first use date and provide a specimen from sarahpalin.com. As I wrote above, it is highly unlikely that she had her own web site back in 1996. Hardly anybody did back then. And those who did would have been people of some fame and notoriety, which she did not have 15 years ago.
The other option Palin has is to divide out her application so that the application based on use for Class 41 can proceed to registration while she tries to straighten out the problem with the class 35 services.
Who really gives a shit?
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
You knew this was coming!
Palin Event Canceled Because Of Threats!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnqdby-trnA
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
Five minutes of a shocking story of threats canceling a Palin speech to a never named organization.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
There was an old c**t from Wasilla...... anyone care to finish?
Who thought being VP would thill 'a
When she started to speak
we all laughed for a week
and now she's a TV moose killa.
I belong to no organized political party -- I am a Democrat.
--Will Rogers
Will have to save that .... lol
!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
I'm really glad I was able to the high-class arthouse movie, Nailin' Palin before it got disappeared!
Proud DFH, emeritus!
Does that mean I can use her name to open a site of bishops molesting republican women?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
So long as they're under aged and dressed like little boys. Vatican rules.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
I'm, sorry madam President (God forbid) but it seems the treaty you signed with {insert any country she can see from her house} is null and void because YOU FAILED TO SIGN IT!
I belong to no organized political party -- I am a Democrat.
--Will Rogers
http://leftake.com/diary/3187/ignore-sarah-pa...
Bristol Palin's only use as a "motivational speaker" is in the "don't let this happen to you" sense.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
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Best LAID plans?
Even in that picture with junior her face is saying, "What the f**k is that!"
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
...I foresee further problems.
When you register a trademark, or a service mark if not producing a product, you have to register it in a category. Each category is subdivided into others. So if you make shoes, you have to register in that subcategory of the greater category, etc.
There is no current TM category that I'm aware that encompasses her product. Inane comments, verbal flubs and errors, paranoid conspiracy delusions, etc. No category for that.
http://www.jafafahots.com
According to Fux Snooze, that falls under "journalism"
At one point George Harrison was trying to start a new group, possibly the Travelling Wilburies, but wanted to name the group The Beatles, and get the original Beatles to sue them.
Apparently you can't copyright a name, and he was trying to bring attention to this.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
for her to be leading the aimless and the mindless. Trouble is there are so many of them. Duh, I can't believe I'm commenting about this woman, and so it goes on and on.......and now a picture of her and her mentally challenged offspring. Oh, Lord what have we done to deserve this shitpile?
All hail to the leaderless.
The Alaskan QuitBull
The fact of the matter is facts no longer matter.
n/t
Well, come on, lighten up. We obviously have too many of those stifling like regulations. Besides, she's just too gosh darn busy to sigh that trademark paper thing.
is etched in my mind, thick as a short plank...
"Half-Governor Mrs. McMoose Onion".
This makes me want to change my name to Sarah Palin.
Thankfully, 10 seconds later, I decide not to act on this.
Demi Boor.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
I was going to say Demi Whore...but...that's one thing she's proven herself to be all in on.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
I don't believe you can trademark the name "Dumb Ass" though!?!
Bristol Palin talking about abstinence. What's next in the series? Bernie Madoff discusses regulatory disclosure? Dick Cheney talking about the Geneva Conventions? John McCain discusses political integrity?
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
From the over-priced "Do as We Say, Not as We Do" lecture series.
me-oww!
Mommy Quitter and Baby Grifter are making, they could afford to hire an attorney who knows some law...
me-oww!
unless you're talking about an oil lease, a DWI or a fish and game infraction any lawyer you're likely to consult is most likely to say: what?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
and holds the trademark(s) ransom for big bucks. It's been done before and really isn't that hard to do.
Sarah Palin as "Annie Oakley" in the New Wild West Show!!!!!!
My favorite is Pravda's name for her: "Miss Know-It-All Shrieking Cow from Alaska". Kinda says it all right there.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
The Half-Baked Alaskan...
Grifty McQuiter is the best description of this piece of human white trash refuse.
Johnny McLame for dragging these particular screaching harpies out of obscurity and onto the national stage. For that may he rot in hell for all eternity. Sarah Failin and her vermin progeny are a blight on our collective souls.
Freedom Isn't Free, So Stop Whining And Pay Your Taxes.
The Whore of Babblin' On.
"Better." It's what we should ask of ourselves and of our leaders.
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