quite lol if you ask me

This is so hardcore




I made a funny
.This Message Edited On 03.11.09

biggest wtf news article ever.

this is from a blog, therefore not taking it seriously

does HXC count?

http://www.taz.de/1/leben/alltag/artikel/1/hardcore-begriff-ist-jetzt-rechte-marke/
http://www.subdays.de/forum/comments.php?CategoryID=10&DiscussionID=15848&page=1#Item_0

if you really want to translate it yourself

bullcrap.

I've already heard about that a few weeks ago.
dunno how all that patent-shit works really, but the term "hardcore" on its own has been registered nine times in the German Trade Mark Register: https://dpinfo.dpma.de/cgi-bin/dpi_cmd
it's all just PR - and it worked

oh wait, that's the link: https://dpinfo.dpma.de/protect/mar.html
just type in hardcore and you'll find registered marks like "ARE YOU HARDCORE ENOUGH?" or "HARDCORE PROTEIN XPLOSION by FITNES".

WALZ-HARDCORE CYCLES 666

the sixth entry in the list really is Schubert's one, btw.

I want a genre trademark too

Nazi bastards

hardcore sux so cool

german hartcoar

Don't mess ith the porn industry, they'll jack your sh** up.

Wow, this is ridiculous.

all we need now is for people to start copyrighting random chat speak like wtf and lol...

in that German trade mark register stuff "lol" is registered 2 times and "wtf" only in WTF Secura and in WURZNER WTF TEPPICHE (teppiche = carpets)

what a gene simmons thing to do

thats so stupid

Thats funny

What a stupid group of people to fuck with. Porn industrialists and hardcore punks are the last people I would screw with.

True that, the porn industry doesn't fuck around...
okay I lied, they fuck around but not with this.

interesting news

It's not a hoax, it's actually happening. The German Department for Patents and Brands/Copyrights (DPMA) issued a press release
regarding the matter after getting hundreds of emails everyday from people questioning the motives of the Nazi doing all this.
Link is

http://presse.dpma.de/presseservice/aktuellepresseinformationen/markeneintragunghardcore/index.html

They have no English version of it online though. The saddest thing about it all is that the guy is actually getting away with it, as
it seems right nowThis Message Edited On 03.12.09

Somebody call Vin Diesel; this shit's about to get XXX.

can I take action to trademark words I want to?[/ignorant

Whats even funnier is that an American Porn group is going after Nazis! Not to mention the Porno industry is filled with Jews! Wow, what a laugh.

wow, add that to the list of stereotypes I constantly rag jews about. didn't know they were porny

Sorry, I'm not buying this for a second. I wasn't able to find a single source on this story that even flirts with credibility. Sounds like either a hoax, an urban legend, or something vaguely true being exaggerated.

read damrods post and read my post I made earlier

http://presse.dpma.de/presseservice/aktuellepresseinformationen/markeneintragunghardcore/index.html
http://www.taz.de/1/leben/alltag/artikel/1/hardcore-begriff-ist-jetzt-rechte-marke/
http://www.subdays.de/forum/comments.php?CategoryID=10&DiscussionID=15848&page=1#Item_0

it's happening, though the news sources are in a language you can't understand surely you can catch the jist of it? translate it yourself, if you must

this is actually quite fun with the power of google translator

link 1 -

Trade mark registration "Hardcore"
Notice dated 27.02.2009

In recent days we have many inquiries about the brand name "Hardcore" (document number 302008045099.1) achieved.

The word mark "Hardcore" was launched in December 2008 for products from the following areas in the trademark register of the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) entered:

* Textiles and textile goods (Class 24),
* Clothing, footwear, headgear (class 25),
* Services in the field of "materials" (Class 40).

The registration of a trademark by the Trademark Act. An applicant has agreed in principle a right to registration of the mark. The DPMA can only reject an application if they meet requirements of the Act are not met. The specific purpose is to register the trade mark and is not specified in the registration procedure is not to be tested. In the case of the brand "hardcore" is the competent body of the Office brand, after careful examination of the notification to the conclusion that the registration can not be denied.

For a trademark registration, you can appeal. This possibility is, however, only the holder of an earlier mark, which says that the new brand could be with his own brand will be confused. In the case of the brand "hardcore" is the three-month opposition period yet. Within this period is also the opposition fee of 120 Euro to be paid.

Anyone in the registration of a brand is, you can also after the expiry of the opposition period, the deletion of the mark DPMA request. Within three months after filing, a fee in the amount of 300 euros to pay.

For more information on trademark law proceedings can be found at http://www.dpma.de/marke/verfahren/index.html.

I did all three but my message was too long... broken english or not something is happening. However consequential it is remains to be seen.

have fun - http://translate.google.com/This Message Edited On 03.13.09