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> this happened sometime around 1932 or 1933, before he patented the term “Aloha Shirt” in 1937. Key words: “as Chun remembered it.” One cannot patent a term.
by gnicholas 3y ago
> this happened sometime around 1932 or 1933, before he patented the term “Aloha Shirt” in 1937. Key words: “as Chun remembered it.”
One cannot patent a term. Is this supposed to say “trademark”?
> Maybe he really was the first, or maybe he was a businessman savvy enough to jump on a patent and manage the narrative.
Hmm, now it looks like the author is confused, not Mr. Chun.
- User23 3y agoWell both are handled by the same office so the confusion isn’t entirely surprising.
- gnicholas 3y agoPerhaps, but to the extent that the author is calling Mr. Chun's credibility into question, it seems important to get this bit right. According to Wikipedia, [1] it looks like he trademarked it, and held onto it for the next 20 years. It doesn't say what happened next, but apparently there is now a trademark for "the original aloha shirt since 1936" — very specific! [2] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_shirt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_shirt 2: https://trademarks.justia.com/868/27/the-original-aloha-shirt-since-86827465.html https://trademarks.justia.com/868/27/the-original-aloha-shir...
- User23 3y agoThat gives me a tangential thought. I'm not a lawyer, so I'd be interested if one specializing in trademark could chime in. Is there any kind of veracity requirement for a trademark? Or is it simply a matter of uniqueness. For example, could I register and then market a paint as 12,000 BC Cave Paint(tm), so long as nobody else beat me to it? My strong hunch is that there is no such requirement.