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A nifty revenge would be for the net to repurpose the term "space marine" as a synonym for some disgusting activity, like vomiting. For example, IP lawyers make
by kryptiskt 14y ago
A nifty revenge would be for the net to repurpose the term "space marine" as a synonym for some disgusting activity, like vomiting. For example, IP lawyers makes me space marine all over my carpet.
- masklinn 14y agoA much more nifty revenge would be to have Games Workshop stripped of all their trademarks, not to use a SciFi staple into nonsense.
- mherdeg 14y agoI'm surprised there isn't already a Streisand-like term for "misappropriating something very common as your trademark", as in the hypothetical "did you see last week when Oracle tried to Space Marine the Internet Oracle archives?" I guess Nissan has some prior art here.
- georgemcbay 14y agoAn even better ploy would be a large effort of people publishing e-books of short stories all with the term space marine in the title and the text. IANAL, but I believe the more widely used and genericized a term becomes, the more likely the trademark is to become unenforceable unless Games Workshop is willing to sue everyone who gets involved.