Why build an unbreakable umbrella when you can create a product that has to be replaced twice during every business trip to the Windy City?
Category: Arcana
The marginalia posts which are of interest to moi, but perhaps of less interest to others searching for pure intellectual property content
Charlie Sheen and the Trademark Factory
I’m the guy who helped get Facebook the rights to BOOK, too
Live Nude Copyrights
For those of you who hate to subscribe to things but still have sufficient neurological juice left in your big big brains to remember short phrases, just open up your browser and type "Who Is Your Lawyer" in one of its myriad forms
World Famous Trademarks
We recognize the Superman symbol in the same way we recognize the Nike swoosh.
Marketing Madness
Turn on your television and, if you are one of the unfortunates who forgot to TiVo your favorite shows, you will be subjected to the most aggressive advertising in the history of mankind.
Patented Killers
In Shakespeare's King Richard III the English monarch memorably shouts out "Off with his head!!" in the Tower of London after accusing former ally Lord Hastings of plotting to destroy him, a cry which finds its mate in modern times in the crazed screeching of Lewis Carroll's Red Queen.
Historical Applets
The love goddess then facilitated an extended bit of adultery between Paris and Helen of Troy, leading to the destruction of Ilium after a 10 year siege, Paris' famously unpleasant death, and the world's first soap operas -- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.