HELP! Slapped by Zazzle for Pixabay image

Not now. There are so many people walking around and talking that the dogs have gotten used to it. They'd have to actually knock on the door to get the dog's attention. 

I was wondering if someone could put it on their own shirt from Zazzle. If my sister really liked that slogan, could she put it on a shirt I designed? Would she get caught using a trademark on a shirt she ordered for herself?

I do have some template items up there. I have no idea what or if people put their own stuff on there.

Nice one X (Ryan) - trademarking is a whole new ballgame for me. 

Anyone know why a corporation can trademark common words (or phrases that could be thought up innocently) when they have no chance to copyright it?

I can understand 'Pepsi Cola' being trademarked - the Pepsi bit was not a word in a dictionary at the time it was trademarked. But the phrase RTL used consists entirely of common words from a dictionary. How on earth did they get away with trademarking that little baby? It seems to me almost the same as grabbing domain names of the large corporations - which the law courts (if I recall correctly) ruled on the side of the corporation.

Big business - bah humbug.

So they are all infringing on my freedom of expression - and getting away with it.

If I had the money I would think up thousands of possible simple expressions and trademark them all - thus stopping any possible big business promotion of the future - cloud cuckoo land I know.

Do trademarks have to be lodged in each and every country?

If so, perhaps 'No Farms No Food' could be used on UK goods.

Alright you guys - Go Get 'Em!!!!

Someone on Zazzle told me about this site, in case you didn't already know, you can check on trademarks.

http://www.patentlore.com/tm/tesshelp.htm

Thanks for the 'clarification' Ryan.

I assume therefore that 'Farmless - Foodless'  would be considered OK (unless of course that has been trademarked also.

ryank: 10/18/2012 - 03:56 AM

So saying "yes" or "no" would be me lying basically.... I could make a new word called yesnobe to cover all bases? 

(maybe I should trademark it)

hehehehehe - did you mean 'yesnomaybe'?