Wal-Mart Attempts to Trademark the Smiley Face

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Wal-Mart Attempts to Trademark the Smiley Face

05-09-2006, 07:30 AM, (This post was last modified: 05-09-2006, 07:32 AM by mandy.)

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Wal-Mart Attempts to Trademark the Smiley Face

Wal-Mart is attempting to trademark the smiley face.Â Smile

Â Cingular wireless is attempting to trademark emoticons.Â Tongue

Â If this trend continues, pretty soon smiling will be forbidden unless you pay a royalty to some Boinktard

corporation.Â :'(

Quote:Wal-Mart seeks smiley face rights

Wal-Mart is embroiled in a legal dispute over the smiley face image which it wants to trademark in the US.

A Frenchman who claims to have invented the yellow smiley face back in 1968 is opposing the US retail giant's move.

For some, the image is a reminder of 1970s counter-culture, for others, a useful shorthand when sending e-mails.

But since 1996, Wal-Mart has used the image in the US on uniforms and promotional signs, and it wants sole rights to it in the US retail sector...

full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4984138.stm

related topic:
A Sad Day For Smiley Lovers Everywhere: Cingular Wireless Patenting the Emoticon
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...379.0.html

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