Intellectual Property Law

“Yankees Suck” Trademarked

By Tim Armstrong, Derek Bambauer, and William McGeveran.

… according to The Onion. If my calculations are correct, I owe the Evil Empire approximately $9268.65 plus statutory interest. Coincidentally, this is roughly the same amount as an order of nachos and a domestic beer costs at the new Yankee Stadium.

“Interactive media is the next wave,” Cashman said. “With our upcoming mobile phone apps and web integration, we’ll soon be able to charge millions more people for using ‘Yankees suck’ in the privacy of their daily lives.”

In related news, you still cannot trademark “Sex Rod” on “apparel ‘ranging from anoraks to zori.’”

Full post as published by Info/Law on November 15, 2009 (boomark / email).