Fire Lilly

SteelClaw...

I love you...

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Pizza Hut Federal Trademark search

75 results.

Taking one example, note how its the specific design that is the trademark. the combination of a logo, and the words written in a particular way. A second one shows much the same thing.

Both of those included the disclaimer "NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "PIZZA" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN"

Go back to #74 and #75 on that list, which are the oldest regsitrations. They are both 'typed drawings' not claims to text.

In fact in a quick review of all those 75, "Pizza Hut" as pure text is not claimed as a trademark that I could see.

Intellectual property laws are probably some of the most misunderstood laws around.

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>_>

Whoops...

Editing my original post.

If I didn't, I wouldn't be able to do the following:

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Besides, I'm only doing it for me. My brain over thinks things without visual aid.

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Its called minding your own business. I mind mine but seems some people like to run around a virtual world and police it. Let the devs worry about it not take it upon yourself to ruin someones good time. Don't try and put a F'in twist on my words and state something stupid like " well going out on a Saturday night and drinking a few beers which is a good time, then getting behind the wheel of a car (censored)FACED.

Whoever said that Land of the Lost isn't a copyright infringement because its a name or words just shud up. So if i were to start a pizza joint called pizza hut BUT didn't server pan pizza, didn't have a red roof, didn't look like a hut then there is nothing that could be done, PLEASE!!

Even better how about me making a game or something for facebook call it "City of Heroes" but not super heroes but Policemen or Firemen were the stars of the game and they were stopping crime and rescuing the occasional cat in the tree. NCSOFT would send there high priced attorneys after me in a heartbeat.

"Land of the Lost" is a trademark which mean that it cant be used unless permission is granted. Google was recently sued because the OS they use for their mobile phones is called Android which could have lead to confusion with the registered trademark Android Data.

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The word 'Pizza' is not Trademarked. 'Hut' is not Trademarked. 'Pizza Hut' - IS Trademarked. You can't trademark single words. You could name your business 'Hut' or 'The Hut', although it would be a bland name, and not get in trouble. The only exceptions to the rule of single word trademarking are compound words. Marvel trademarked Superhero because it's a compound word. It's the reason why we aren't named 'City of Superheroes'.

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Pizza Hut Federal Trademark search

75 results.

Taking one example, note how its the specific design that is the trademark. the combination of a logo, and the words written in a particular way. A second one shows much the same thing.

Both of those included the disclaimer "NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "PIZZA" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN"

Go back to #74 and #75 on that list, which are the oldest regsitrations. They are both 'typed drawings' not claims to text.

In fact in a quick review of all those 75, "Pizza Hut" as pure text is not claimed as a trademark that I could see.

Intellectual property laws are probably some of the most misunderstood laws around.

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The above proves that even I am not entirely aware of all the little details.

The previous example about Land of the Lost, the one your ignored, that one stating the reason why said name was not under Trademark infringement due to having no correlation to a desert and roaming dinosaurs, was the correct example. It's possible to have multiple songs or books titled after each other, so long as the content of the song/book aren't blatant rip-offs of songs/books of the same name. In the same way, it's possible for multiple businesses to have the same name but not fall under Trademark Infringement. It becomes a case of Trademark Infringement as soon as both companies attempt to settle business in the same area. In the case of business, and only under certain circumstances, you would be correct.

You're on the right track, but that doesn't save you from being wrong in this case.

- Fire Lilly

Edited to add information and correct grammar.

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Sharkhead Isle 36
Nerva Archipelago 8
St. Martial 32

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Ignoring the cheap shots to well established and respected ex-employees...

Anyone have a good PM they would like to share? The only restrictions being that it doesn't hold personal information, information in which the other person may be hurt or offended, or any information that may get anyone banned. I strongly encourage permission from the other person before putting the message on display.

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Oh, dear... I have the weirdest PM ever, and I know for certain y'all won't be able to top it.

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Reading that was a religious experience for me.

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Let's try to keep some self-control.

Also, the name that you keep is what will be permanent. The avatar will be changeable.

I feel like it's necessary for me to mention that I don't have any fighting skills (i beet u @ brawl), nor do I have a fire/kin.

I have a pretty fire fairy as my avatar, but that's about as far as I go.

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all of these toons they keep changing damage and what not but there is yet one toon i ain't seen nobody did nothing to at all....city of heroes fire kinetics controller.

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I stopped reading the OP here.

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You are wise beyond your years. *Respectful bow*

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Live Green!

Eat your salads with environmentally friendly cookies!

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And there are no cookies are environmentally friendly as Soylent Chunk Cookies!

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Now we're talking!

My favorite characters (Off the top of my head):

Villains:

Seer Marino
Wretch
Mako
Scirocco
Psymon Omega

Heroes:

War Witch
Horus (Was that his name?)
Apex (Notice that I'm the only person who likes this comic... Even if the plot was a tad rushed.)

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Hero, definitely War Witch. Once they killed her off, I lost interest in the comics.

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I'm pretty sure that was their last comic anyways. Losing interest in something that's finished doesn't seem unreasonable.

My brain! It's BURNING!

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i fight in real life and i doubt any of you kids i would pay attention to.

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No idea what you just said, but I don't advocate fighting! What I suggest:

Become a pacifist!

Live Green!

Eat your salads with environmentally friendly cookies!

- Fire Lilly

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I didn't know that there existed ANY letter combination that would give ZERO GOOGLE RESULTS AND NO ALTERNATE SPELLING SUGGESTION!

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Ok, this just made my day!

Oh, dear... I have the weirdest PM ever, and I know for certain y'all won't be able to top it.

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Ler Bwerpathon

Hai ther personneighbor! ^.^ Are you Bwerp?

Did you just say No?

Well, PENALTY. You now playing the BWERPATHON.

Rules: You must survive the Bwerpathon! For SOME STUPID REASON, a character of YOUR selection HAS BEEN selected BY ME. This character will have to go through a series of horrible events for the lulz of it. ^.^ The character will have many pant legs. Must choose. If you choose human flesh, you GO ONTO the next event. If you choose DOGGIE, your arm and most of the other bones in your body goes BWEAK.

So choosy yes nums. ^.^ Goodk, amirite?

It looks like your horrible luck is being dolled out though, cause everyone else on the forums that I know is also trapped in the Bwerpathon. Many will enter. Only 1 will be the sum of all errors.

The more RP toons you have, the better the top of the sky you are in chances. More characters you have, more LIVES you have to proceed through Bwerpathon. If you don’t have any characters, THEN GET A LIFE.

You also start the Bwerpathon with 100,000,000 HP. If you lose all HP, you lose all lives and instalose. Spirit of fraking city, yes?

Each event below has set answers. Each answer has set result. Send your answers back, along with the number of lives you had, and I’ll post the results and the winner, along with handing out a prize. ^.^

I will restate, for clarity, that every question has a set answer. No matter how the question is phrased, or what options you are given, there is only one actual answer. Some questions may require pure luck to answer, but all of them are references to popular culture. The exception to this rule is the last question, in which I will take a variety of answers based on who is answering them and how.

If you are ready for the Bwerpathon, continue.

EVENT ONE!!!:@-+

A cute baby needs his food to survive. He asks you to feed it HUMAN FLESH. You do not have any other humans, but you do have a DOGGIE. Do you feed the baby HUMAN FLESH taken from your body, or do you feed the baby the DOGGIE?


Question 2!

The baby from the last question grows uber powerful after feeding it and transforms into a Temple of Beth Israel. The Temple of Beth Israel attacks you using COMFY COUCHES. Do you defend yourself with RELAXATION AND MUSIC, or MOOLAH from your wallet, or AN EXCLUSIVE BRICK?


C:

You are running to the West, and you must pass through Amuricuh. To get through the West, do you use a SILVER REPLICA OF THE LOST ARC WITH AN H, or SLINGSHOT LAG, or THE MAGICAL STAR GOLFBALL?


17-

VOLCANO. Do you INSURE, use your BLUE CAR, or GO IN FOR A CLOSER LOOK, or GO BACK IN TIME AND PREVENT THE ERUPTION?


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What do you think of the Bwerpathon so far? WHAT, or WHAT, say WHAT, and WHAT?


A question:

Does your answer happen to be THE NUMBER TWO, a NEW PIECE OF MUSIC, a BIG DRILL BIT, or a GREEN TROLL, or perhaps even MUSTARD GAS?


The same question as last time:

Does your answer happen to be THE NUMBER TWO, a NEW PIECE OF MUSIC, a BIG DRILL BIT, or a GREEN TROLL, or perhaps even MUSTARD GAS?


@

You are feeling under the weather? Well, what is the best medicine for that? GREEN BILE, YELLOW BILE, BLACK BILE, WHITE BIBLE OR DIET LIME COKE?


L

Which question is this? Question L, Question 10, Question 9, L, a question asking you which question this is, or a question asking you which question is this?


Easy Question

What is my favorite drink? Moonbeam Absinthe or Ketchup?


Insidiously hard question to make up for the last one%

What is the answer to this question?


Lollerskates(

What does OMGIOFFPSSPMO stand for?


MY CHARACTERS COME OUT OF NOWHERE TO FIGHT!!*

Charles Simmons tries to teleport inside of you using the mailbox cheat! What do you do?

Silver Meniscus kicks you in the nuts! If the character you are using as your current life is male, you may lose either 1 life or 5 hp.

Commander Cynic tells you to drop and give him infinity. There is some whipped cream, a clown, and an octopus, and a crystal ball within immediate range. WHAT VOODOO DO YOU DO?

Masquerade falls down dead in front of you. What do you do?





Send in your answers NOW.

Peace and Leis. ^.^
- Poster_Name_Here (As if it wasn't obvious to those who knew him)

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Well, supposedly we're going to be switching to some shiny new forums soon. Seriously this time!

As the little forum announcement suggested, I decided to delete a few of my PMs to lighten the load during the transfer. 153 received PMs later, I can't help but smile about the cheesy little conversations I had over the past two - three years. One PM, I'm welcoming Ex Libris to the forums with a series of unusual questions. Another PM, a friend of mine is linking some snapshots of Sexy Jay at work while remembering the Issue 10 beta, smashing through aliens with JLove on our three person team. There's a 'Thank you' message or five from me officially welcoming some people to the forums, right next to the four PMs of different people wanting to know how I was able to walk in-game.

There's a lot of stories within those Private Messages of yours. Are there any of them y'all feel like sharing before blasting them in to oblivion?

Old:
Received: 153
Sent (Saved): 2

New: 17
Sent (Saved): 1

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Once upon a time not everything on a character would inherit the same visibility as the character, you could wind up invisible with a stunningly obvious jet pack. What about reversing that, and providing a means to set the crab pack invisible while leaving the rest of the character alone? A free to run toggle would work for both costume changes and dual builds, while making it part of, say Bane Armor Upgrade, would make it work for dual builds, but eliminate any oddball issues that might crop up. Heck, there are temp costume powers in game that make the pack disappear, might be able to get away with one that only changes the back slot.

Not that I think even that would be simple, but it may be a direction the Devs haven't looked it for all I know.

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Interesting idea.

My brain must not be functioning well, 'cause I have no idea what you just said. But still, the words I was able to get out of that post suggested it as a good idea.

I'm in favor of this idea!

<--- Is walking around all dazed and confused like.

Wow... I should not have been writing at one AM.

My aunt has a pet parrot that will occasionally mimic select sounds it hears over it's lifetime. One little phrase that the bird will mimic every now and again, the bird had noticed distinct connection between that phrase, a certain item in the house and one of the home's residents.

My aunt's daughter, making her my cousin, had many friends in the little town where she lived. So, often times, someone calling the house phone where she lived was looking specifically for her. My aunt would hear the phone ring, answer it, then realize just whom the phone call was for. This would happen over and over again, sometimes multiple times a day. Eventually, the mother stopped looking for her daughter to give her the phone and stuck with a less strenuous shout, loud enough to reach to the basement where her daughter's room was located. The mother continued the trend, seeing as hardly a phone call would come for her.

But something strange happened one day. I suppose at this moment, we should know at least one of the names of the characters in this story. So let's call the cousin of mine 'Gina'. The phone rang one evening, and as the mother walked to grab the phone, a familiar cry came from farther down the living room. The mother stopped and took a moment to think, Did I just call Gina? No, I couldn't have... The phone is not in my hand. I haven't picked up the phone. I'm not near the phone. The phone is still ringing. I must be going senile. Oh, wait, the phone is still ringing!

She took another step toward the phone and picked it up, but the line was dead. She had waited too long. Someone stretched out her hand to take the phone from her mother; it was Gina. Garnering no response, Gina took the phone for herself and answered, but she too came to the conclusion that the phone was dead. She put the phone back on its little pedestal and walked away, glaring at her mother in a slightly dark way, blaming her mother for what she assumed was a prank.

She had barely made it to the stairs when the phone began ringing again, most likely it was the same person attempting at calling one more time. The mother, having moved a few feet away since the phone had been set down, turned to move toward the phone. Her daughter, Gina, had done the same. But before either of them reached to the phone, just after the first ring, Gina heard her mother calling from behind her. But that couldn't have been right, because her mother was in front of her! Both Gina and her mother turned toward the general direction of the noise, stared at a number of items in the room, then back to the phone.

The mother answered, said hello, and requested the name of the person talking. Once she had her information, she politely asked that person, "Would you be alright with calling again here in about... Oh, thirty seconds?" The caller agreed, no doubt confused having not been given a reason. The mother hung up.

Now, the mother and her spouse stood staring down the length of the living room, counting the away the time for when the phone was to begin ringing again, after exactly thirty seconds had passed. They waited. Both counted to thirty. Then the phone rang. And in the very corner of the living room where the most grand of bird homes resided, "Gina, phone!"

Both stared directly at the source of the noise. It was their pet parrot, Pecker, so used to hearing the mother call for Gina that it began calling for her himself. I assume the sound had stuck with him as interesting and something he wanted to mimic. After all, he was good very good at it.

I still travel to my aunt's house today. Everyone once in awhile, whenever the phone would ring, Pecker the impatient parrot will call for Gina even after the mother stopped. Even after Gina had moved out. I suppose it's his way of letting the house know for certain that someone was calling. Perhaps he was trying to Gina a more physical presence with the family. Or, maybe, it's just entertaining to repeat what most would consider now useless memories. Either way, I still laugh and remember,

"Gina, phone!"

I've seen people write much longer then 30K. Or, it could just be my brain going "Wowie, that's a lot!"

Man... This takes me back to my Dark/Dark scrapper days.


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And now that I think about it, the days in which I had decided to bring my Peacebringer up to fifty using only powers in my Primary and Secondary, and purposely choosing to do so WITHOUT any enhancements. I was tempted to go without the PB forms and/or go solo.

P.S. I was NOT aware that my first scrapper would suck the life out of an endurance bar like mosquitoes to a blood. However, I was aware that I had gimped my Peacebringer in the journey to Fifty Land.

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Just for kicks - quickly thrown together illustration of some of those terms. >.>

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Can't find video. That or it's just not wanting to play for me.