The brain implant company cofounded by Elon Musk filed to trademark the product names Telepathy and Telekinesis. But it turns out that another person had already filed to trademark those names.
Elmo always finding exciting and innovative ways to grift.
“It’s really really strange, but we’ve hit a period of time where the only word used in public and personal creations was “Marklar.” They used it to describe everything. Entire stories were simply the word Marklar over and over and over. We believe this period of time coincides with the period of time where Immortal Cyborg Mecha Musk owned all words except Marklar.”
Apple is a trademarked brand name, but it’s far older than computers. Trademarks aren’t a blanket ownership of a word, they’re a disprovable presumption by a court that a trademark has a relationship, or may have soon, with s particular company in the minds of consumers.
Ironically, they had to initially agree not to do anything in the music industry when Apple, the computer company, was in the nascent stage. Because of Apple, the record company…
Well of course he shouldn’t, those are age-old science fiction terms and it would be-
I hate everything.
Future archeologists/historians:
“It’s really really strange, but we’ve hit a period of time where the only word used in public and personal creations was “Marklar.” They used it to describe everything. Entire stories were simply the word Marklar over and over and over. We believe this period of time coincides with the period of time where Immortal Cyborg Mecha Musk owned all words except Marklar.”
Much like “meta” and “metaverse”. Yet here we are.
I’m still annoyed that a company pushing an IM product was able to steal “slack” away from the Church of the Subgenius…
Apple is a trademarked brand name, but it’s far older than computers. Trademarks aren’t a blanket ownership of a word, they’re a disprovable presumption by a court that a trademark has a relationship, or may have soon, with s particular company in the minds of consumers.
Ironically, they had to initially agree not to do anything in the music industry when Apple, the computer company, was in the nascent stage. Because of Apple, the record company…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer