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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Someone once told me the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets "combines the worst aspects of the military, Greek life, and the South into one horrible cesspool of ****." I think that about describes it.
Texas A&M is being stupid.
No, it's not. Not even close.It's like trademarking the phrase "Go team!"
New banner being hung in the RCA Dome as I type this: 2015 12th Man Trademark Finalist
Please explain how A&M is being stupid? A&M already pummeled the Seahawks in court over this.
Please explain how A&M is being stupid? A&M already pummeled the Seahawks in court over this.
The phrase has been in common usage pretty much forever and they are exploiting the law for gain that they don't deserve. They filed for a trademark in 1989 for this phrase which has been on public record since at least 1900 (look it up on wikipedia).
About as classy as trying to trademark happy birthday to you.
Who owns Happy Birthday? Class action lawsuit argues all of us
Litigious American ********. Just because you can sue, or trademark a common phrase, doesn't mean you should, or that you haven't lost honor by doing so.
The phrase has not been "in common usage" for forever. You're wrong and the courts would have sided with the Seahawks [sic] except they decided that settling out of court would be better. BTW, since you are behind the times, SCOTUS ruled that the lyrics to Happy Birthday are public domain.
The first recorded use of the term "twelfth man" was a magazine published by the University of Minnesota in September, 1900, that referred to "the mysterious influence of the twelfth man on the team, the rooter."[1] Later, in the November 1912 edition of The Iowa Alumnus, an alumni publication of the University of Iowa (then known as State University of Iowa), E.A. McGowan described the 1903 game between Iowa and the University of Illinois. In his article, titled "The Twelfth Player" McGowan wrote: "The eleven men had done their best; but the twelfth man on the team (the loyal spirited Iowa rooter) had won the game for old S.U.I."[2]
BTW, did you ever, EVER stop to think that maybe they filed the trademark in 1989 because other others were profiting from using the phrase? Furthermore, were you out slamming Kraft for trademarking "19-0"?
I think you're right that legally they aren't doing anything wrong but, it was a pretty weak phrase to trademark from the get go.Please explain how A&M is being stupid? A&M already pummeled the Seahawks in court over this.