I seriously hope that the author was being purposefully ironic/trolling. You can't copyright a word. It would fall well short of the de minimis, even if it was

I seriously hope that the author was being purposefully ironic/trolling. You can't copyright a word. It would fall well short of the de minimis, even if it was totally made up. The only case I can think of off of the top of my head would be Exxon, where they tried to copyright Exxon, because if my memory serves me correctly they failed to secure their TM correctly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Corp._v_Exxon_Insurance_Consultants_International_Ltd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Corp._v_Exxon_Insurance_C... As others have mentioned, perhaps I'm just taking him too seriously and he was just using it as a figure of speech. However, on the internet, he really should be as verbose as possible... and not make poor jokes like that.