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  • trademark The Cleveland Indians new name, the Cleveland Guardians, already belongs to a roller derby team. So does the .com David Pescovitz
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  • Trademark law Fox News has filed a trademark for "OK Boomer" — and they're not the first ones to do it Thom Dunn
  • CN Tower CN Tower's management company claims that any picture of the landmark building is a trademark violation Cory Doctorow
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  • vulgarity For the best of reasons, The Slants won the right to trademark racially offensive slurs — and now there's rather a lot of that Cory Doctorow
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  • trademark Fictional products don't violate trademark laws Cory Doctorow
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