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Tebow trademarks kneeling on one knee and fake praying
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/jets-te...7810--nfl.html
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) -- Dropping to a knee like Tim Tebow might cost you now. The New York Jets backup quarterback is trademarking ''Tebowing,'' the move in which he goes down on one knee and holds a clenched fist against his forehead while praying during games. After Tebow led the Denver Broncos to a handful of fourth-quarter comeback victories last season, ''Tebowing'' swept the country - with actor Robert Downey Jr. even doing it at the Oscars. Newsday first reported that the trademark was approved Oct. 9. Tebow says Friday he wasn't aware the trademark was official yet. The devout Christian says his representatives filed on his behalf not for financial gain, but ''to just control how it's used, make sure it's used in the right way.'' |
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10-20-2012, 03:22 PM | #46 |
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Ignorance? No.. Just laughing at the fact that you think Tebow has a "Brand" that needs any kind of protection.
It's a ****ing touchdown celebration. This is the most absurd and pathetic example of intellectual property I've ever heard. Calling it "Intellectual" at all is disgraceful and insulting to the idea....
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10-20-2012, 03:41 PM | #47 | |
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10-20-2012, 03:54 PM | #49 | |
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The interesting thing here is that they seem to have jumped on this early because they saw that it was quickly becoming a verb. The more common knowledge something is the harder it is for them to trademark. Do you happen to remember the Xerox commercials where they were asking people not to kill their brand by continuing to use the name Xerox as a verb for making a copy? Tebow's lawyers and managers, etc. all saw this coming and jumped on it early. And they got it passed. The simple fact that the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office accepted and issued the trademark should tell you that it is a brand with a mark that needs protecting based on IP law. Before that, all of Tebow's "people" apparently saw it for what it is, too, and knew they should protect it. As such, they filed for a trademark. I guess we're all wrong and you're right. It's perfectly logical. You're just allowing the fact that you don't like the kid (and for what? because he gets a lot of attention even though he sucks??) keep you from accepting it for what it is. Last edited by DRU; 10-20-2012 at 04:15 PM.. |
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10-20-2012, 03:59 PM | #50 |
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I hope he gets cut from the NFL
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10-20-2012, 04:16 PM | #51 | |
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I don't think so. Teblowing would be fair game s long as they did not have a picture or tebowes picture. Avengersxxx and batfxxx are perfect examples of porns I mistakenly came across and watched briefly. |
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10-20-2012, 04:24 PM | #52 |
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I'm not familiar with trademark law, but I agree with DRU here. It's something that had to be done, and there's nothing sinister about it. If Tebow's people hadn't trademarked the thing, someone else may have done it. Maybe someone else was already trying to.
I laugh at him as much as anyone, but it's pretty easy, to me, to separate the contempt of Tebow's beliefs, marketing, and relative football skills from the acceptance of sound business practices. |
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10-20-2012, 04:24 PM | #53 |
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So can he charge for the usage?
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10-20-2012, 04:27 PM | #54 | |
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It wouldn't stop people in other countries, either, unless they filed apps in those countries that were granted as well. The fact remains, trademarks are hard to get approved. They have to pass a very specific set of rules in order to be approved. This was approved, and I can see why. I hate Tebow madness just as much as the rest of you but that doesn't change reality. |
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10-20-2012, 04:29 PM | #55 |
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http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/1...mark-tebowing/ It all comes down to confusion in the marketplace, and if using the mark would make people think Tebow and co. were directly associated with all these people using it, they have every right to protect it. The Trademark and Patent office agrees. Last edited by DRU; 10-20-2012 at 04:35 PM.. |
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Technically, no, but he can use the trademark as a tool to help keep you from using it for your own financial gain.
That said, if they negotiate with somebody who does want to use the mark he could gain from it that way, just like Jordan does with his mark. If you license it to people for use on their products or in their marketing material you can receive money based on your licensing agreement with that company....just like Jordan does. Apparently they've said any profits that do come from this will go to the Tebow Foundation. |
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10-20-2012, 05:03 PM | #58 |
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If anything, this just goes to show you how absurd the patent and trademarking process has become in the US. Sometime in the future, we're going to see a complete collapse of this type of thing. The advance of technology, and the unenforceable nature of patents and trademarks is going to eventually completely dismantle the entire system. Globalization of technology means that other countries simply laugh at our notion that we control or own words and ideas. It's simply not a sustainable or enforceable system.
The fact that Americans think they can claim ownership of something as ridiculous and unimportant as a touchdown celebration is laughable. Just as the MPAA and RIAA are completely helpless to enforce protection of their IP throughout the world, so to will the time come for the same to happen to US patents and trademarks.
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Let's get completely hypothetical here, and take a look at this... Let's imagine that became a national craze and everybody was running around "Priesting" to the point where as soon as you saw a silhouette of that image or you heard the term Priesting people immediately associate it with Priest Holmes himself. Then imagine people starting buying domain names like priesting.com with his image and were selling merchandise with his image and name on it. The public could very easily start to think that anywhere they saw that image or heard that term, Priest Holmes must be involved. His people would do exactly the same thing, and I would bet you wouldn't care nearly as much. Again, you're not talking any shit on Jordan for doing the same thing, and you don't seem to care that our country allowed him to do that long before technology was so heavily embedded in our lives. The Trademark and Patent office isn't going to let just anybody trademark their TD move. It's not just some free for all for anybody to trademark anything they want. This is a completely valid use of trademark law. Get over it. |
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