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LOL ;-)
"Scott A" <eh105jb@mx1.pair.com> wrote in message
news:GDu34w.CFL@lugnet.com...
> > Display item only. No more :-(
>
>
> Jono,
> I hope you have paid despair.com to use the frowny. They have registered • it
> as a trademark:
> http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=75502288
>
> From the despair.com site
> http://www.despair.com/demotivators/frownonthis.html):
> =+=
> At a press conference, Despair's COO, Dr. E.L.Kersten, announced his
> intentions to sue "anyone and everyone who uses the so-called 'frowny'
> emoticon, or our trademarked logo, in their written email correspondence. • Ever."
>
> Despair filed suit yesterday in a U.S. District Court in Dallas, alleging
> trademark infringement against over 7 million individual Internet users. • The
> company has requested separate injunctions granted against each. It is
> believed to be the largest single trademark dispute in history.
> =+=
>
> Also
> http://www.despair.com/frownies.html
>
> =+=
> In an unprecedented reversal of policy, Despair Inc. has announced that it
> will manufacture and sell legally-approved Frownies(tm) to the buying • public
> who desire to continue using them in email.
> =+=
>
> They are a liitle tongue in cheek about it... thankfully. :-)
>
> Scott A
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