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...your jobs. Every day that we are meeting with administers trying to make this school better—not only for us but also for students who haven’t yet walked through Johnston Gate—is an honor.” And Capp, with his trademark sense of humor, displayed his fondness for his partner at the end of his speech. “I’ve been very lucky to have had professional intercourse with him,” said Capp before turning to Glazer. “I just want...
YOUR FANS MAY NOTE THE ABSENCE OF BOOGER, ONE OF YOUR TRADEMARK WORDS. In fact, I mainly used it to describe the kind of humor I do?"Oh, I write booger jokes." If you actually were to look through my oeuvre, there's probably only once ... a day that I used it. Only a few thousand times did I go to that well...
...that should give hope to foreign brands in China, the U.S. java giant won a copyright infringement suit against Shanghai-based Xingbake for appropriating its name (Xingbake is Mandarin for Starbucks) and its signature green-and-white logo. Starbucks, which has 300 outlets in China, had registered the Chinese trademark to the name Xingbake in 1998. The impostor was ordered to pay $62,000 in damages, and must come up with a new name. Staryuan coffee, anyone...
DIED. MICHAEL VALE, 83, mustached actor who endeared himself to millions of TV viewers--and helped make Dunkin' Donuts a major brand--as the diminutive, sleepy Fred the Baker, with the trademark line "Time to make the doughnuts," in commercials for 15 years; in New York City...
...that their firm’s name has seeped into the common lexicon (though the company’s lawyers have been known to send out nasty letters to those who use the word publicly without an obvious reference to the search software giant, in order to protect their trademark). Occasionally it happens because the noun already had a verb embedded in it: we’ve mailed letters for long enough that e-mail was just asking for it, and what else would you call the act of instant messaging someone other than, well, instant messaging them...