<![CDATA[Deadspin: Trademarks]]> http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/deadspin.com.png <![CDATA[Deadspin: Trademarks]]> http://deadspin.com/tag/trademarks http://deadspin.com/tag/trademarks <![CDATA[Here's The Video Where LeBron James Takes Flopping To Heretofore Unseen Levels]]> Your morning roundup for May 27, the day it helps to have a background in mathematics if you want to work for Pauly Shore. Video H/T Allen W More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5806116&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Syracuse Tries To Trademark "Orange;" Other Orange Schools Don't Like It]]> You can trademark anything these days. Pat Riley, of course, owns "three-peat." Michael Strahan has "Stomp You Out." Jared Allen registered "Got Strange?" But owning a swath of the color spectrum is mighty presumptuous. Since Syracuse dropped the "men" from "Orangemen," the school has been trying to do just that. Other schools that have orange in their names or uniforms don't much like it . Among them: Boise State (which already owns blue astroturf), Tennessee, the University of the Pacific, Oklahoma State, Clemson, Florida and Auburn. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5784890&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Bart Scott Now Owns The Rights To The Phrase "Can't Wait!"]]> Sal Paolantonio interviewed Bart Scott back in January, after the Jets defeated the Patriots, 28-21 in the AFC semifinals. As the ESPN YouTube video would have us believe, Scott "literally [flew] over" to Paolantonio, talked about nosebleeds and believing for a bit, and ended his shining moment with an exuberant "CAN'T WAIT!" Just five days later, Scott registered a trademark for men's, women's, and children's apparel with the United States Patent & Trademark Office. He "revealed" the trademark in an interview this morning, the day after possibly violating his NFL contract by stepping into the ring in TNA iMPACT!. What a week for Bartholomew. The Jets haven't yet commented on the wrestling debut, but if there is a lockout next year, Scott will look for back-up earnings from all of those awesome "CAN'T WAIT!" T-shirts that nobody will be buying. That is, of course, until hipsters pick them up in bargain bins at the Salvation Army 15 years from now. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5777062&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Dennis Green Mocks Himself For Cash]]> Say what you will about former Buzzsaw "coach" Dennis Green, but you can't say he's not entrepreneurial. He has moved to copyright the phrase "They Are Who We Thought They Were." More »
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