This hack of Google Print which is being disseminated around the Web today at the blogospheric velocity allows you to read all (or perhaps all of the significant bits) of books on Google Print. The method seems to be especially effective for reference works.
This would seem to suggest that the market for certain types of books may be adversely affected by Google Print.
As this blogger puts it ‘why lug around a 1300-page reference when you can just look it up on Google.”
Rumors Re Intel Dropping ‘Intel Inside’
Unsourced rumors re Intel dropping the INTEL INSIDE trademark reported here by the Inquirer.
If things are slow you can go to uspto.gov and do an ownership search for recent filings by Intel (Intel has filed multiple applications for CORE INSIDE, XEON INSIDE and PENTIUM INSIDE, all since Dec. 1).
Celebrity Endorsement As Theatre
Must-read: Peyton Manning: The Man And The Brand, via This Blog . . . Hat tip to the less famous Froomkin.
Old Soda Cans
Collection of old soda cans. Hat tip Kottke.
UK Trademark Office Says Fcuk That To Invalidation Action
Barbie Story Disturbing For Various Reasons
Odd Story Regarding TRO Against Letterman
Gotta Catch Them All
Nintendo, owner of the Pokemon property, has protested the use of the name POKEMON by scientist Pier Paolo Pandolfi (pictured above) to refer to the POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic gene in his Nature article “Role of the proto-oncogene Pokemon in cellular transformation and ARF repression.”
Evolution of the AT&T Logo
Animation of the evolution of the AT&T logo, with music, here.
Katrina Blows, Bush Sucks, Examiner Rejects
Go to the Trademark Search site and look up serial number 78706886 for the mark KATRINA BLOWS, BUSH SUCKS. Go to TDR and look at the office action rejecting the mark on ‘sandalous and disparaging’ grounds.
Coupla points:
1. How come this application got an office action after two weeks, when every other application waits seven months?
2. Note the usual interesting interplay between free speech and section 2(a).
3. Is ‘sucks’ that scandalous and disparaging these days?
4. The thought of the applicant getting the President’s consent is, uh, funny.
5. Note the last name of the examining attorney.
UPDATE: It has been brought to our attention by a reader who apparently has too much time on his hands that this same examiner has rejected the application LIAR LIAR BUSH ON FIRE. Shouldn’t she recuse herself?
Hat tip: JW.