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FACEPALM: USPTO GRANTS OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY TRADEMARK ON THE WORD ‘THE’
Trademark
FROM THE FACEPALM DEPT
Mon, Jun 27th 2022 01:34pm - Timothy Geigner
For at least three years now, we have been discussing the goings on concerning a
trademark application submitted by Ohio State University for using the word
“the” on apparel. If your brain just came to a screeching halt, it may be
because you’re not a college sports fan. See, Ohio State University absolutely
loves referring to itself as The Ohio State University. Part of the tradition is
for athletes who go on to have professional careers always announce their
college affiliation by really leaning into the word “the”. Even college sports
commentators think it’s all very stupid and the USPTO initially rejected the
trademark application based largely on technical grounds.
Which was curious, because technical grounds aren’t the largest issue here. The
USPTO should have rejected the application based on the notions that the word
“the” is one of the most commonly used words in the English language and
therefore shouldn’t get trademark protection, not to mention that a shirt with
the word “the” on it does absolutely nothing to inform the public that that
shirt is an OSU product. But OSU pushed for the trademark in yet another
application… and the USPTO somehow decided to grant the mark.
> The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office approved Ohio State’s application Tuesday
> by issuing a registration certificate. It allows Ohio State to control the use
> of “THE” on “clothing, namely, t-shirts, baseball caps, and hats; all of the
> foregoing being promoted, distributed, and sold through channels customary to
> the field of sports and collegiate athletics,” the certificate reads.
You can see the absurd certificate in the link. It looks hilarious, with just
the word “the” at the top. Except that none of this is actually funny. Why?
Well, because the USPTO’s actions now mean that nobody else can make any
athletic apparel, hats, or other clothing consisting solely of the word “the”.
And while very few people or companies actually do that, they certainly should
be allowed to. Because it’s the word “the”. No matter how annoying OSU has been
with its silly little tradition, the word “the” on clothing is not identified
with OSU. Or any other entity.
Because it’s just the word “the”. And the USPTO really, really should know
better.
Companies: ohio state, the ohio state
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glenn says:
June 27, 2022 at 1:46 pm
The band The The should come out with some t-shirts with “The The” on ’em. I
mean, 2 ain’t the same as 1, right?
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Bobvious says:
June 27, 2022 at 4:36 pm
RE: THIS IS THE THE DAY YOUR LIFE WILL SURELY CHANGE
Agreed. Matt Johnson predates the living prior art out of stupid decisions like
this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYgKCbFbWY
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Naughty Autie says:
June 27, 2022 at 7:59 pm
RE: RE:
You do know that prior art is for patents, not trademarks, right?
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Naughty Autie says:
June 27, 2022 at 1:56 pm
How it might work if this wordmark stands:
# U.S. Patent and Trademark Office approved Ohio State’s application Tuesday by
issuing a registration certificate. It allows Ohio State to control # use of
“THE” on “clothing, namely, t-shirts, baseball caps, and hats; all of #
foregoing being promoted, distributed, and sold through channels customary to #
field of sports and collegiate athletics,” # certificate reads. (-_Q)
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Anonymous Coward says:
June 27, 2022 at 2:01 pm
> But OSU pushed for the trademark in yet another application…
Always a winning tactic, where the only way to stop variations of an application
from being submitted time after time after time is to grant an application.
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lucidrenegade (profile) says:
June 27, 2022 at 2:16 pm
THE US Patent and Trademark office is staffed by a bunch of idiots.
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Anonymous Coward says:
June 27, 2022 at 4:05 pm
RE:
Well, they had to go somewhere after all the institutions closed down.
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Anonymous Coward says:
June 27, 2022 at 6:10 pm
RE: DANGLING PARTICIPLES ARE NOT A NEW THING
Precedence here. Abraham Lincoln created OSU with 30,000 acres of stolen by
force Indian territory, adding federal monies and Rutherford B. Hayes added T to
OSU in 1878 to make it special. Not like no one ever heard of the
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Anonymous Coward says:
June 27, 2022 at 8:20 pm
RE: RE:
> Rutherford B. Hayes added T to OSU in 1878 to make it special.
And whoever was registering osu.edu in 1989, instead of the-osu.edu (still
unregistered, with or without the hyphen!), seemed to have forgotten. Although
the WHOIS data new consistently refers to “The Ohio State University”.
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Ehud Gavron (profile) says:
June 27, 2022 at 8:26 pm
RE: RE: RE:
It’s called NICKNAMES and has no legal basis or standingm
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Naughty Autie says:
June 27, 2022 at 9:17 pm
RE: RE: RE:2
Oh? You wanna tell that to Wilkinson?
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Anonymous Coward says:
June 27, 2022 at 10:12 pm
RE: RE: RE:2
Nobody claimed it had any legal meaning. But it’s odd that a university would
call itself by a “nickname”, and not even recognize the “true name” it insists
people refer to it by. Were they serious about this, I’d expect them to register
it with the “the”, use that in all branding, and redirect the old domain. Hell,
nobody even bothered to create a wikipedia redirect for “The OSU”, which any
employee could’ve done for free without permission.
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Anonymous Coward says:
June 28, 2022 at 9:45 am
RE: RE: RE:3
Actually, permission is required, as it is with any other copyrighted material,
but it’s preemptively granted by the license on Wikipedia.
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AricTheRed says:
June 27, 2022 at 2:26 pm
NOT IDIOTS EXACTLY...
Hey, just because OSU asked Mom previously if they could TM “The”, and they
asked Dad after she said no…
well, maybe they are idiots.
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Beefcake (profile) says:
June 27, 2022 at 2:38 pm
This article illustrates that nothing is as definite as it used to be.
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Thad (profile) says:
June 27, 2022 at 2:48 pm
RE:
booooo
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Brutus B. says:
June 30, 2022 at 11:51 am
RE: I SAW WHAT YOU DID THERE
…because I have a degree from The OSU
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Eric says:
June 27, 2022 at 2:57 pm
A
Anyone available (pro bono of course) to help me file a trademark for the letter
‘A’ to be used on hats ? Thanks in advance!
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David says:
June 27, 2022 at 3:39 pm
RE:
No doubt leaving us with a lot of red MG-hats because of the A-holes.
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OGquaker says:
June 27, 2022 at 5:22 pm
RE: GEOGRAPHIC SPECIFIC
I hope you don’t live in Oakland
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GHB (profile) says:
June 27, 2022 at 2:58 pm
SO EVERY LOGO AND NAMES HAVING THE WORD “THE” MUST HAVE A LICENSE?
I can imagine Ohio State University will have a massive list of defendants on
their lawsuit.
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Ehud Gavron (profile) says:
June 27, 2022 at 3:01 pm
THIS WORD... 'THE'... IT'S NOT REALLY COMMON, IS IT?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/325246156668
E
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Pixelation says:
June 27, 2022 at 3:22 pm
How likely would a court challenge of THE trademark be to get it nullified?
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Ehud Gavron (profile) says:
June 27, 2022 at 3:25 pm
RE:
Working on it. First, use the “trademark”. Done. Second, get a lawyer-gram. Come
on, THE Ohio State University THE Lawyer Firm send me THE letter. Then we’ll see
what happens in court.
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Anonymous Coward says:
June 27, 2022 at 4:05 pm
From here on out, i will be unable to recognize what univerity OSU is, i shall
only know TOSU.
Good job, USPTO and TOSU sportsball idiots.
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Pixelation says:
June 27, 2022 at 4:29 pm
Time to trademark TEH before someone else figures out it’s teh only alternative.
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Naughty Autie says:
June 27, 2022 at 8:01 pm
RE:
Is it? What about ‘hte’?
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Crafty Coyote says:
June 27, 2022 at 5:35 pm
Oh no! Somebody has been given a right to trademark that specific three-letter
word which is most common in our English language. This is not good as that
would make it impossible for this language to function properly. Loss of this
word makes writing awkward, stilted, and impossible. How can any of us live
without that word, or having to pay Ohio State for its use? I guess paragraphs
like this will become normal for us all.
I can write an entire paragraph without using “the”. That’s a challenge I
passed.
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That Anonymous Coward (profile) says:
June 27, 2022 at 5:45 pm
“And the USPTO really, really should know better.”
You would think that, but in a nation where some people believe they can’t get
knocked up the first time they have sex… we get the peons we deserve.
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Ehud Gavron (profile) says:
June 27, 2022 at 6:03 pm
RE: IT JUST HAPPENED...
> …people believe they can’t get knocked up…
There’s a complete lack of any responsibility in that concept. “It just happened
I GOT KNOCKED UP.”
And them Duke Boys sure did fancy jumping bridges that were out for repair. I’m
pretty sure Dodge (now FCA) wouldn’t have honored a bumper-to-bumper warranty on
that.
Getting pregnant – you did the action, and there are consequences. If you live
in the US as of Monday half the states will help you and the other half will
lecture you.
Jumping bridges that are out. It’s plain stupid. Not covered by warranty.
Using “the” word “the” without violating midwest fucked up America’s college of
dumbshits’ trademark… well… time will tell.
Ohio, Iowa, and Florida are responsible for “the” donald mcdonald president
thingie we had to put up with. I’ll see them in “the” courthouse before I give
up my rights.
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Naughty Autie says:
June 27, 2022 at 8:07 pm
RE:
It gets worse. There are some in Congress that believe you can’t get pregnant
through rape because the body either shuts it down or the rape kit acts like an
abortion. It’s like they’re completely unaware that any person with a uterus
who’s raped is offered emergency contraception for a very good reason. (-_Q)
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Anonymous Coward says:
June 27, 2022 at 8:17 pm
RE: RE:
> There are some in Congress that believe you can’t get pregnant through rape
> because the body either shuts it down or the rape kit acts like an abortion.
While you’re suggesting they view it in scientific terms, a majority of
congresspeople believe (or claim to believe) in supernatural forces. They
probably think that either God would stop the pregnancy, or he wants it to
continue (and let’s not talk about his role in medical interventions).
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That Anonymous Coward (profile) says:
June 27, 2022 at 9:18 pm
RE: RE: RE:
A joke about the sad state of mental health care in this nation would go here if
only they hadn’t kept electing the crazy into office.
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RE: RE: RE:2
I think that is their mental health care, TBH.
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Naughty Autie says:
June 27, 2022 at 9:21 pm
RE: RE: RE:
Put it this way, if God had wanted us to die in childbirth or from disease, He
could have prevented us inventing prophylactic measures.
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PaulT (profile) says:
June 27, 2022 at 11:32 pm
RE: RE: RE:
But, such a belief only goes up to when the baby is born. As soon as that
happened, the mother is the sole decision maker and she should have thought
about it before she had kids she couldn’t afford, and the people who forced her
to bring to term will be busy dismantling access to everything from education to
food for the child. While still claiming to be good Christians, of course.
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That Anonymous Coward (profile) says:
June 29, 2022 at 8:38 am
RE: RE: RE:2
Unless she wants to take her child to Drag Queen Story Hour, then she is unfit.
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Naughty Autie says:
June 29, 2022 at 10:14 am
RE: RE: RE:3
So somebody who isn’t ready to be a parent can just take their toddler to Drag
Queen Story Hour to get the CPS to take them off their hands? And after the GOP
passes legislation to get Drag Queen Story Hour banned on the basis that it
“promotes deviant sexual practices,” what then? Hell, I’ve heard they’re already
moving to have pantomime dames banned because they’re invariably drag queens.
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That Anonymous Coward (profile) says:
June 29, 2022 at 10:27 am
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Well they can just walk into a fire house & hand the baby to anyone & not have
to answer any questions.
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Ehud Gavron (profile) says:
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RE: RE: RE:5 TELLING OTHER PEOPLE WHAT TO DO... THE ULTIMATE IN MANSPLAINING
> Well they can just walk into a fire house
Well they can just have an abortion 8 months previously and not have to go
through anything for 9 months AND THEN go to said firehouse.
If you would like to respond, please write it on paper with an ink pen, place in
a straw basket, and go walk into a firehouse to drop it off. I’m sure the kind
EMTs have nothing better to do than transcribe your note to a reply here on
TechDirt, OR FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO WITH A *#&#(& BABY!!!
Talk about making YOUR problem someone else’s problem.
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Well, they can just have an abortion 8 months previously and not have to go
through anything for 9 months AND THEN go to said firehouse.
The SCOTUS just overturned Roe v. Wade, remember? And by the way, primary
parents of unwanted babies have been able to leave them at fire houses since
1999. Are you deliberately obtuse, Ehud, or is it a fashion statement?
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Ehud Gavron (profile) says:
June 29, 2022 at 7:52 pm
RE: RE: RE:7 TELLING IT LIKE IT IS...
> The SCOTUS just overturned Roe v. Wade,
No it’s not that simple, but thanks for saying so. “Overturn” is a legal
principle that applies to laws, not precedential opinions.
> remember?
Remember that thing that didn’t happen? No, I don’t.
> And by the way, primary parents of unwanted babies have been able to leave
> them at fire houses since 1999.
No, they haven’t. It was 2001 for my state – Arizona. Please stop making up
stories and pretending those are facts.
Are you deliberately obtuse, Ehud, or is it a fashion statement?
I’m really unable to select from your two options:
1. I’m obtuse
2. It is [what is?] a fashion statement.
SO I’l go with
1. I’m sorry you don’t understand how things work in our legal system. Judicial
decisions and congressional inaction don’t mean that a change is neither
rescission nor overturning.
Congress has PUNTED on Roe for almost 50 years. Your heroes McConnell and
McCarthy and MTG and the people who came before them between 1973 (when you were
not yet born) and now… those are the problem.
Don’t put it on me.
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nasch (profile) says:
June 30, 2022 at 4:12 pm
RE: RE: RE:8
> “Overturn” is a legal principle that applies to laws, not precedential
> opinions.
According to whom?
https://www.google.com/search?q=legal+precedent+overturned
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Raziel says:
July 1, 2022 at 12:15 pm
RE: RE: RE:8
> The SCOTUS just overturned Roe v. Wade.
“Overturn” is a legal principle that applies to laws, not precedential opinions.
And since when is case law not law, shit for brains? I’m sorry you don’t
understand how things work in your legal system, but don’t put it on Autie that
you want for an education.
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Anonymous Coward says:
July 2, 2022 at 10:08 pm
RE: RE: RE:8
*whooosh*
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Ehud Gavron (profile) says:
June 29, 2022 at 8:26 pm
RE: RE: RE:7
I’m sorry you missed the point.
Abortion means you don’t need to carry the baby for 8-9 months and THEN leave
he/her at a firehouse.
It wasn’t 1999. My state started it in 2001. Still, none of this changes the
fact that an abortion means you don’t go through 8-9 months only to drop your
kid off.
If you can’t be bothered to get the facts straight (1999 vs 2001, etc.) please
just stop.
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Anonymous Coward says:
June 29, 2022 at 10:22 pm
RE: RE: RE:8
Oh, just fuck off, you nasty, unempathetic little troll.
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Naughty Autie says:
June 29, 2022 at 10:32 pm
RE: RE: RE:8
I’m sorry you’re too ignorant to get the point. It might not have been 1999 in
your state, but that’s still the first year safe haven laws existed. Still, none
of this changes the fact that abortions are either banned or expected to be in
over half of the states of the US. If you can’t be bothered to have a smidgen of
empathy for people with uteruses whose Fourth Amendment rights have been flushed
down the shitter, please just leave.
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Ehud Gavron (profile) says:
June 30, 2022 at 1:40 am
RE: RE: RE:9
,,”please just leave”…
I’m not in your military. You’re not my xo. Step off.
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Anonymous Coward says:
June 30, 2022 at 8:58 am
RE: RE: RE:10
“I’m not in your military. You’re not my xo. Step off,” demanded the troll
because it was easier than caring about others.
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Ehud Gavron (profile) says:
June 30, 2022 at 6:37 am
RE: RE: RE:9
> empathy for people with uteruses whose Fourth Amendment rights
You should probably go read the Fourth Amendment. It doesn’t say A THING you
think it says.
Hop along now. It’s a new day, and yesterday’s stupidity can be erased if you
can be encouraged to read and learn.
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Raziel says:
June 30, 2022 at 9:10 am
RE: RE: RE:10
Text of the 4th Amendment proving the right to abortion:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and
effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and
no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or
affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the
persons or things to be seized.
Now why don’t you take your own advice about reading and learning, you
hypocritical piece of shit?
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Ehud Gavron (profile) says:
June 30, 2022 at 11:21 am
RE: RE: RE:11 ABORTION RESTRICTIONS IS NOT AN UNREASONABLE SEARCH OR SEIZURE
Thanks for quoting part of the 4th amendment. Of course it has nothing to with
abortion. It’s about searching and seizing evidence for an eventual trial. You
knew that, and yet…
> …you hypocritical piece of shit…
You might want to look that one up as well. Hypocrisy is having different
beliefs to one’s own actions. I neither believe in unreasonable searches and
seizures nor commit those acts. I do believe in the right to an abortion but I
don’t commit that act as I’m neither an OBGYN, nor a pregnant woman.
It’s always awesome to find a great intellect with which to discuss things. Your
“novel ideas” on the fourth amendment somehow being related to the right of
abortion is pretty much… dead on arrival. Thank you for sharing your opinion.
Here’s what a wise man would say:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQCU36pkH7c&ab_channel=justscrollingby%E3%83%84
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Naughty Autie says:
July 1, 2022 at 12:19 pm
RE: RE: RE:12
It’s about searching and seizing evidence for an eventual trial.
So people are arrested to be presented as evidence in a trial? Please excuse me
while I change my clothes. I just pissed myself laughing at your ignorance.
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Lostinlodos (profile) says:
June 30, 2022 at 6:09 pm
RE: RE: RE:7
Again, that’s a news headline. No so accurate in reality.
What happened is the court overturned a procedural error. One that made case
precedent more powerful than actual law. And at the same time deprived the
states of making constitutional laws of their own.
This error has been corrected.
It’s up to congress to make any national laws. A court can not and must not
legislate from the bench!
What’s funny is
we love giving up our rights, don’t we? How many people realise that a jury has
the right and duty to acquit a guilty party by invalidating the law. Despite the
nonsense judges occasionally spew in jury instructions.
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Ehud Gavron (profile) says:
June 30, 2022 at 6:35 pm
RE: RE: RE:8 JURY NULLIFICATION
Swiftest way to get excused from jury duty:
“I will explain jury nullification to my fellow jurors.”
I’ve used that.
I’ve also walked into the jury pool with a Grisham paperback. I suspect Turow
would have worked as well. The prosecutor took one look, asked no questions, and
I was struck with cause… because clearly reading a novel means I can’t tell
honest justice and the law from fiction.
> Despite the nonsense judges occasionally spew in jury instructions…
Yeah, judges do mislead jurors, often. A jury does not have to return a verdict.
A jury does not have to find for one party or the other. A jury is a group of
people who are chosen to attempt consensus. Their lack of reaching that is just
annoying to the seat-warmers in the Judge’s chair and the prosecutor’s chair.
You can leave a hospital AMA (Against medical advice) and you can do the same at
a jury trial.
Why have I not had to sit through four different trials? Apparently my reading
is at a high enough level that I won’t swallow the bs the prosecutor thinks is a
“open and shut case.” (not a legal standard).
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Naughty Autie says:
July 1, 2022 at 12:23 pm
RE: RE: RE:9
You can leave a hospital AMA (Against medical advice) and you can do the same at
a jury trial.
You can’t leave jury service against medical advice, so I suspect the rest of
your claims are bullshit as well. Now excuse whilst I change my clothes again.
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Ehud Gavron (profile) says:
July 1, 2022 at 12:59 pm
RE: RE: RE:10 ANALOGIES HAVE ONE PART THAT IS THE SAME, AND ONE THAT IS
DIFFERENT.
A literal reading of what I wrote would in fact misunderstand the example
analogy.
Here’s a Google search that provides a lot of different ways to do that.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+leave+a+jury&oq=how+to+leave+a+jury
Leaving aside the begged question of why one would want to leave a jury, the
simple solution is to request the Court to excuse one from that service. Reasons
include anything from the very subjective “financial hardship”, to medical (“I
can’t sit in a chair for more than 20 minutes… and here’s a note from my
doctor.”) and more.
I appreciate your desire for hygiene. It should help you the next time you try
to not do your civic duty, because if you smell great and dress the part, the
Court will let you go.
Happy Weekend and USID to everyone!
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Naughty Autie says:
July 2, 2022 at 10:22 pm
RE: RE: RE:11
It should help you the next time you try to not do your civic duty…
You’re the one avoiding his civic duty, actually, so don’t put that on me.
…because if you smell great and dress the part, the Court will let you go.
No they won’t, and I wouldn’t expect them to either. If serving on a jury means
I’m not like you, then I’m even happier to do it.
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Ehud Gavron (profile) says:
July 2, 2022 at 10:34 pm
RE: RE: RE:12 ACTUALLY.
Actually people who start a sentence with the word “actually” feel superior and
a desire to shame or admonish the listener.
> You’re the one avoiding his civic duty, actually.
> He who asserts must prove. Do show how I’m “actually” avoiding my civic duty.
>
> No they won’t, and I wouldn’t expect them to either. If serving on a jury
> means I’m not like you, then I’m even happier to do it.
Thank you for sharing your lack of expectations, none of which were solicited.
If it makes you happy to think you’re not like me, I would leave you with that
joy.
Have a great weekend and happy US Independence Day.
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Anonymous Coward says:
July 4, 2022 at 9:56 am
RE: RE: RE:13
Do show how I’m “actually” avoiding my civic duty.
None of your comments on this page have been hidden, so everyonecan read what
you’ve said about avoiding jury duty in the past. It’s no great leap to imagine
your attempts to evade your civic responsibilities continue.
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Lostinlodos (profile) says:
July 1, 2022 at 4:00 pm
RE: RE: RE:9 “THE LAW AS IT STANDS”
… is bull. Any court has the right to nullify a law that violates constitution
at the local level or above.
In a jury trial the legal decision is with the jury.
I’m still waiting for an intelligent anti-copyright lawyer to use that in
closing arguments.
a person redistributing an item at lower or no cost is capitalism at its
greatest.
People need to better understand their rights as a juror. INAL. But I will
disregard any incorrect mandate from a judge as a juror and inform the panel of
their right to do likewise.
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Anonymous Coward says:
July 2, 2022 at 10:14 pm
RE: RE: RE:7
Let me break it down for you:
Are you deliberately obtuse (are you fucking stupid), or is it (deliberate
obtuseness) a fashion statement (are you fucking stupid)?
Given your obvious inability to correctly parse the question, the answer’s
clearly yes on both counts, meaning you’re doubly fucking stupid.
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Lostinlodos (profile) says:
June 29, 2022 at 7:30 pm
RE: RE: RE:6
Baby safe drops have been in place for a LONG time. No I’d, no questions asked.
Fire houses are but one of many places. Many hospitals, clinics, even some
schools also participate.
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Ehud Gavron (profile) says:
June 27, 2022 at 10:33 pm
WIKEPEDIA
> Hell, nobody even bothered to create a wikipedia redirect…
Wikipedia? That not a registry of anything. It’s a private 3rd party UGC site.
Having or not having “bothered to create” anything on Wikipedia or Netflix or
Twitter or MyEhud.COM does nothing to change the legitimacy of anything.
If your thesis is “You must have a page on this third-party website or you
aren’t real” no, that’s not how any of this works.
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Anonymous Coward says:
June 28, 2022 at 9:52 am
RE:
Stop being willfully obtuse. The suggestion is that it does not and has not
seemed actually important enough to use the “The” anywhere ever except for
control and possible rent-seeking in sports-related merchandise.
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Anonymous Coward says:
June 28, 2022 at 10:07 am
RE:
Encyclopedia Britannica? That not a registry of anything. It’s a private 3rd
party site. Your point?
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ECA (profile) says:
June 28, 2022 at 12:49 am
DUH!
THE!
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That One Guy (profile) says:
June 28, 2022 at 12:51 am
This has got be be one of [Blocked due to trademark] more absurd and boneheaded
moves by [Blocked due to trademark] USPTO, yet sadly it seems entirely within
character for [Blocked due to trademark] agency.
Hopefully someone with sufficient funds can shoot [Blocked due to trademark]
trademark down because having [Blocked due to trademark] word ‘[Blocked due to
trademark]’ treated as though anyone could or should own it, despite [Blocked
due to trademark] word being a core part of language both english and otherwise,
one in use by [Blocked due to trademark] public on a regular basis would be
quite [Blocked due to trademark] bit of insanity.
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Steerpike (profile) says:
June 28, 2022 at 8:07 am
RE:
None of this is how trademarks work, however.
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Naughty Autie says:
June 28, 2022 at 9:58 am
RE: RE: MORE LIKE THIS?
Taken from an advert for a UK university:
As part of our Sponsor licence requirements, Sheffield Hallam University must
report details of [Blocked due to trademark] student’s placement to UKVI,
including [Blocked due to trademark] date they begin [Blocked due to trademark]
placement, confirming when [Blocked due to trademark] placement has ended and
their return to normal study. Also, if [Blocked due to trademark] placement
employer and/or place of employment should change during [Blocked due to
trademark] period of placement, or if [Blocked due to trademark] placement ends
earlier than expected, this must be reported promptly to UKVI.
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Drew says:
June 28, 2022 at 2:40 am
THE WAS FIRST
I guess they didn’t consider the Times Higher Education World University
Rankings (https://www.timeshighereducation.com) as being relevant because they
are not from the US. Or something.
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Anonymous Coward says:
June 28, 2022 at 8:28 am
RE:
Possibly just out of pique, because OSU doesn’t even crack the top 500.
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Anonymous Coward says:
June 28, 2022 at 9:56 am
I wonder how quickly this would be dropped if news organizations made a part of
the house style to always say an “unnamed university in Ohio” to avoid
incidental trademark infringement.
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TasMot (profile) says:
July 7, 2022 at 6:38 am
RE:
Here, let me fix that quote for you “” to always say “THE unnamed university in
Ohio”……
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nasch (profile) says:
June 28, 2022 at 10:29 am
> It allows Ohio State to control the use of “THE” on “clothing, namely,
> t-shirts, baseball caps, and hats; all of the foregoing being promoted,
> distributed, and sold through channels customary to the field of sports and
> collegiate athletics,” the certificate reads.
So it’s an article of clothing. (credit to Adam Burke)
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klarg (profile) says:
June 28, 2022 at 3:28 pm
DOH! DUH.
Besides the logical and legal points, it is duh Ohio State University
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Lostinlodos (profile) says:
June 29, 2022 at 3:04 pm
HUH?
Wait, how are we supposed to communicate when %%% word %%% is banned from %%%
common discussion, from from %%% ability to use %%% word %%% to discuss %%% use
of %%%?
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Ehud Gavron (profile) says:
June 29, 2022 at 10:40 pm
Got it.
If someone doesn’t agree with your erroneous claims that aren’t welcome on
yourforum.
But .. it’s not your forum. You’re just someone peddling lies.
2001 is not 2982, and your opining doesn’t trump reality.
Night night.
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June 30, 2022 at 9:11 am
RE:
Wow! Projection much?
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Toom1275 (profile) says:
July 3, 2022 at 12:15 am
RE:
[Hallucinates facts not in reality]
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Ehud Gavron (profile) says:
July 2, 2022 at 10:36 pm
WP AND >
Is it possible to make WP not require two empty lines, so that included quoted
text and a break actually causes a break of the quote?
Example:
> This is quoted text
> This is not.
empty line above, then
> This is quoted text two
empty line above so this should not be quoted.
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