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He's wrong. You wouldn't google something on bing. | 393 comments | Create New Account
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Man launches lawsuit to have Google’s trademark on its own name undone
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 26 2012 @ 01:12 PM EDT
When people say google something they mean use
Google to look it up.

Just like people say bing it meaning to look through the recycle bin for
yesterdays news.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

    He's wrong. You wouldn't google something on bing.
    Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 26 2012 @ 01:33 PM EDT
    To google something is to look it up on google. What is important for trademark
    is not whether a word is a noun or a verb. It is the identification of the word
    with a particular company or product.

    [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

    Man launches lawsuit to have Google’s trademark on its own name undone
    Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 26 2012 @ 06:26 PM EDT

    Is this guy on heroin? If he thinks Google will hand him their name wrapped in cellophane and Scotch tape, he's really in need of some primal therapy.

    He needs to take an aspirin with some koolaid from the thermos, put a bit of dry ice on his forehead, and calm down. Once he comes to his senses, he should take the escalator up to his lawyer's office and leave a post-it on his attorney's formica desk and a dictaphone message telling him to stop yo-yoing around and to zipper this lawsuit shut rather than tossing more kerosene on the fire.

    As it stands now, he's driving recklessly down a dark, rainy tarmac road with no catseyes to mark the center line. He's headed straight for the dumpster.

    Google is going to take him to the laundromat by presenting the memeographed, xeroxed, and videotaped evidence that he's totally looney tunes. They won't even have to use the polaroids. The evidence will stick better than super glue on velcro! They'll knock him to the linoleum so hard that will take more than a band-aid to patch him up, and more than clorox and a kleenex to clean up the bloody mess. There won't be enough left of him to hoover up, and he won't be left with enough cash to buy a lava lamp.

    If he's lucky and stops this in time, he'll still have enough money to put some petrol in his jeep, rent a u-haul, and go on a nice vacation in a tropical zip-code where he can wear a speedo and relax to the muzak while in the jaccuzi. Or, take his jet-ski and aqualung to get some kodak snaps of some tranquil underwater scenery around the reef. In the evening, he can take some jello, coke, and popsicles from the fridgidare and put them in a styrofoam cooler; put on some chap-stick and lanolin sun tan oil; and stretch out on the astro-turf and watch some tivo'd sports on the hotel jumbotron with dolby surround sound.

    Otherwise, he's going to need a lot of vaseline.

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