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1 hour ago, Cygnia said:

 

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Posted July 16, 2021

 

Hubble Space Telescope is operational again  ... fifteen years after its design lifetime.

 

I have said before ... that when our descendants look back on this era, they may judge that our truly superheroic creations have been things we sent to space.

 

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That, and an RPG dedicated to over-the-top absurdities in levels of action and deliberate inattention to physical realities.  You want a vehicle chase between an airship and a streetcar, with the cyberized sentient apes on the streetcar chasing the minions of the ancient Chinese eunuch sorcerors fleeing on the airship?  :think:   I'm reasonably sure we've done that.

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I wonder how long it will be before our common English words disappear into trademark.  In the past,  I was told that words by themselves cannot be trademarked,  but if incorporated into a logo,  design,  etc then it becomes trademarkable. This is because the word is a component of some larger image,  not the image itself.  Now it sounds as though the word is all that is needed for the trademark. 

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9 minutes ago, Asperion said:

I wonder how long it will be before our common English words disappear into trademark.  In the past,  I was told that words by themselves cannot be trademarked,  but if incorporated into a logo,  design,  etc then it becomes trademarkable. This is because the word is a component of some larger image,  not the image itself.  Now it sounds as though the word is all that is needed for the trademark. 

 

It's somewhat more nuanced than that.  From the AP story

https://apnews.com/article/sports-education-ohio-scholarships-trademarks-730b748275bddac70547062ffea0b1f8

 

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office approved the university’s request Tuesday. The school says it allows Ohio State to control use of “The” on branded products associated with and sold through athletics and collegiate channels, such as T-shirts, baseball caps and hats.

 

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