OT: Stupd trade marks

[Marshy]

As I stared at my American box of Marlboro death sticks, I realised that over there, someone's trademarked "Flip-Top". I mean, FFS.

Anyone got any other truly crazy examples of trademarking the bleedin' obvious?

[JMorgan]

Some one tried it with conkers.

[Bodo]

German Telekom TM'ed the color Magenta - part of the cmyk-colorscheme

[ErnestM]

Have you ever read a Microsoft manual? Everything is superceded by a (tm) (r) or (c). They should just do an all inclusive...

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ErnestM