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This is true, but where a business is established through effort and over time then most people would see justification for legal protection by trademark - not opportunistic “land grabs” where no effort has been made (other than paying lawyers) and over time in order to justify such protection (such legal protection which would in itself instantly, and with no physical/business effort, create a “real estate” asset with significant commercial value purely on the back of the legal “land grab”). And then there’s encroachment - extending the “borders” of your real estate into other areas until total control is achieved. Could you set up a local grocery business trading as “Apple”? Pretty soon, I suspect, you’d have a bunch of unsmiling lawyers knocking on your door... Indeed Apple had to pay a price (chicken feed at today’s values ) to buy the trade name from The Beatles who’d created their own Apple Corps music business while Steve Jobs was still an annoying kid at school… —— Edit to add not living in a big city, I just spotted that Apple already moved into the grocery business years ago… proving the point https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/stores/apple-paves-way-for-retailers-to-trade-mark-store-layouts/369304.article

Never underestimate people’s desire for making money from stuff they’ve not even created by their own efforts - like words. Words that are the basis of our most valuable common shared resource, particularly on this site - language. I believe someone with the name Markle is at this very moment seeking ownership of the word archetypes* with the obvious objective of taking control of this word (stealing?) in order to remove it from common ownership (i.e. us) and make a lot of money from it for their own personal enrichment *archetypes has been owned by all of us as part of our English language since at least 1599 (OED), and before then was part of the normal everyday lexicon of the peoples of Ancient Rome (archetypum)

bad bear! good news…

nice bats cute bats not scary at all…

My my, “Queen Clo” stirred the pot with that one well I’m not stirring …just SNATCHING!

sorry you lost your hard drive data using the iPad Safari browser it takes just two “clicks” to display the source code for this thread - the bookmark icon top left, and then “Show page source” from the drop-down list. The html source code is then displayed in a new tab, not a new browser - there’s a lot of it! on my old Windows laptop there’s a drop-down menu source code display option under Tools (I think) so that’s also just two clicks, but that’s in plain sight - the iPad feature needs to be set up as per the OP but, once done, it’s easy peasy to use

bad Steve *unties the squawking duck *

cute tails

looks so sweet and innocent… …I almost believed it! SNATCH!

*Ring ring…* “I need an emergency ambulance!” ”Wassup?” ”It’s a dangerous delusional derangement!” ”On it!!” *screeching tyres…”

I’ve been reading up on Daffy… Daffy’s many “qualities” are listed things like - sly - sneaky - scheming but “nice” isn’t mentioned At all not ONCE!

fight! fight! fight!

yip! yip! yip!

fake news!

maybe, but you ain’t gonna be coronated anytime soon

The svelte grace of penguins is immutable

definitely sly and sneaky

congrats to the new “ruler” Not bitter at all…

“Queen Clo” looks like high maintenance

*SNATCH!!* Oooops, I’ve stolen from myself

*snaffle*

*grabit*

spring here!

I bet the little blue one uses a bag full of mean ‘n’ sneaky tricks in the ring

In the Deep no-one can hear you SCREAM!!!