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Do Merchandise Marks Give-Up The Ghost Upwards Your Nose?

Regular readers of the IPKat volition appreciate a practiced joke, specially if it has relevance to intellectual property. Ilanah, who constitutes one-half of the IPKat, persuasion the next joke as well as then practiced that nosotros both decided to seat our friends as well as meet who could make a larger audience. Ilanah is winning, since she has to a greater extent than friends than I do, but, since I tin rely on all my friends to read the IPKat blog, I persuasion I’d post service it here.

The joke goes similar this: “Question: what’s the departure betwixt spinach as well as snot? Answer: y'all tin swallow snot merely y'all can't swallow spinach”. In indicate of fact, despite their negative connotations, both snot as well as spinach are represented on the U.K. Trade Marks Register. The SPINACH discussion as well as device grade is registered for marketing as well as interrogation consultancy services inwards Class 35, spell snot is a fundamental constituent of the SNOTBLASTER word mark, registered for products inwards Class 3.

, who eats neither snot nor spinach, wonders whether his masters volition come upwards up alongside a to a greater extent than tasteful joke adjacent time.

Recipes for spinach here, here and here
“I Yam What I Yam” says 1 famous spinach eater
Fake your ain snot here and here
The fruit of the olfactory organ here

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