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I really have no idea what they're thinking when they do things like this. Wow, I just looked up their TM page and they have a lot of very generic and ridiculous tm requests (some are less unreasonable), but things like "Little Furry" and "Sissy". Come on, those are so generic. It looks like they also have a request to trademark "Furrytails".PadPhilosopher said:Why do so many AB/DL companies engage in trademark sharking? What is to be gained by trademarking "babyfur"? I see no way they could gain, but obviously the attempt will alienate some of their customer base.
In that case it at least is part of the branding. Huy Fong Foods discovered the same thing when they tried to trademark "sriracha," but couldn't, because it was too widely used, both as a description of a sauce and a place.PinkAndLittle said:That's up there on the same level of the monster energy drink company trying to own the generic term monster... like why if for no reason that trying to earn extra royalties...
That's the key question. Really they don't gain anything from it. So why?PadPhilosopher said:Why do so many AB/DL companies engage in trademark sharking? What is to be gained by trademarking "babyfur"? I see no way they could gain, but obviously the attempt will alienate some of their customer base.
Perhaps they're afraid someone else will trademark it and then try to hold the community hostage? Maybe it's a move to protect the term for its community? That just occurred to me as a plausible and non-evil reason for the long list.mistykitty said:That's the key question. Really they don't gain anything from it. So why?
Ok, in that case it could be viable because if the wrong person owns it the could misrepresent it. I want to look further now because I'm 90% sure it already belongs to someone but if not and LFB is doing it to protect the term then I can maybe accept this.PadPhilosopher said:Perhaps they're afraid someone else will trademark it and then try to hold the community hostage? Maybe it's a move to protect the term for its community? That just occurred to me as a plausible and non-evil reason for the long list.
"Babyfur Con" is trademarked for "Arranging, organizing, conducting, and hosting social entertainment events." BFC is an awesome con btw, I'd definitely suggest anyone who's interested to try to go haha. I guess it could be argued that it's kind of a generic term, but it is literally the name of the convention and a bit more specific and describes what it is and its intent perfectly, which is not the case of L4B.mistykitty said:Babyfur I believe already might belong to one of the furry conventions so legally I don't think they can trademark it. Plus what's to gain from it?
This is almost exactly what Rearz claimed when trying to trademark ABDL. This is most likely not the case, these companies really don't care about the community on a personal level and instead of trying to trademark it to protect it, they could just leave it be. On top of that, to maintain a trademark, you have to enforce it. For instance, Google doesn't like or want people to use the term "googling" or "I googled it" for looking up something online. Same with Adobe and "photoshopped" being used for editing an image. If a term becomes generic then it's no longer "trademark-able" so they're required to enforce and hand out CnD's if someone uses the term for anything other than what the trademark deams it allowable for. So by trademarking a term, such as "babyfur" and "ABDL", not only does that not protect it, but it requires them to enforce that it not be used by anyone else which is quite the opposite. That's more like literally stealing it from the community.PadPhilosopher said:Perhaps they're afraid someone else will trademark it and then try to hold the community hostage? Maybe it's a move to protect the term for its community? That just occurred to me as a plausible and non-evil reason for the long list.
Well saidNabePup said:. Still though, it is giving ownership to a word that up to this point was used to define a community and form of expression to tons of people and could be freely used by anyone. No one has the right to do take any form of ownership to any extent over such words/terms and anyone who tries to almost always has either ulterior motive and/or regardless of the intent, can only do harm without any benefits.
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