rick’s Comments

• Nov 27th, 2012 @ 8:33am

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  on The Oatmeal Sued Again - This Time For Trademark Infringement

  No, they chose to name their company after their rabbit, who was named after a common breakfast food, first.

• Nov 27th, 2012 @ 8:29am

  Re:

  on The Oatmeal Sued Again - This Time For Trademark Infringement

  All wives do. They start with the raw material that they married and proceed to craft "their husband" over the course of many years.

• Sep 27th, 2012 @ 8:48am

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  on Hospital Tech Declines To Patent His Invention, As Saving Lives Is 'More Important Than Money'

  Curious that the lanyards that they used at the hospital had NO breakaways. The single breakaway lanyard is used in places that have machinery to keep it from harming the wearer if it gets caught up.
  I can see how the three breakaways are better than one in this circumstance, though, because an attackers hands could grab the lanyard at the breakaway and still have a nice long "string" to use with one hand on each end.

• Aug 11th, 2012 @ 6:33pm

  Re: Re: Open Source Trademarks

  on Two Open Source Communities Battle It Out Over Trademarks

  If they completed the gear, then they could be infringing on Techshop's gear logo (http://www.techshop.ws/). They use the gear for quite a lot of their teaching projects, so they are rather proud of it.

• Jul 6th, 2012 @ 4:29am

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  on Throwing Rocks Through Your Windows: Cover Artists Beating Original Artists To Market

  If the artists wrote the song, then they are getting some money through the mechanical royalty. If they didn't and just recorded it, then I guess they are SOL.
  
  Fault the record company for not releasing it for sale earlier.