arstechnica.com — If you're planning on opening up some sort of business in Russia anytime soon, be sure to avoid winking at your users. One Russian entrepreneur claims to own the trademark to ;-) and wants to charge business owners "tens of thousands of dollars" to license it.
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purseonalityDec 14, 2008
I'm calling dibs on OMG, WTF, and ROFL.
viper001Dec 15, 2008
That brand of idiocy isn't exclusive to Russia. Didn't the owner of Fark try to trademark NSFW? Is it even possible to trademark acronyms and emoticons that no one can prove the origin of?
sindexDec 15, 2008
but what are the quote marks? was he in a fight?
nova20Dec 15, 2008
...and how many of us here have chat logs that prove prior art?
misterparryDec 16, 2008
I'm claiming LOL then
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