If you have been a frequent reader of thedomains.com, you know we have been looking at the trademark system warning that every word, two letter, three letter and every saying your grandma taught you is trademarked somewhere in the world.
So we were not surprised to learn the even the “f” word has now been granted trademark protection.
In this case the trademark was granted in Germany for the word ” Ficken” which translated into F**K or F**king in English.
Spiegel.de is reporting that the highest court in Germany granted TM protection for “Ficken” a brand of peach schnapps produced by German liquor manufacturer EFAG.
“The firm had spent two years trying to win over officials, having initially been rejected by a lower court on the grounds that “Ficken” – the German word for f**k – was too offensive to be trademarked.”
“In its ruling, the Federal Patent Court said the application was undeniably vulgar but declared the sexual connotations did not promote discrimination or violate public morals.”
“The court, based in Munich, southern Germany, pointed out the word was frequently used in films and literature.”
No F**king joke.
So while TM interests bitch about their “rights” being infringed on, it seems that even arguably the most vulgar word in German is now subject to TM protection.
Fucking awesome
Told you man….”BullS” is soon to be trademark too
Damn.
If they are going to charge royalties, that’s going to put a damper on things.
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is subject to TM protection”…
for liquor.
in Germany.
All of us whose livelihoods depend on selling liquor in Germany and utilising the word ficken to do it are deeply troubled by this decision.
The most vulgar word in the German language is actually Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
Kevin
That you would know the most vulgar word in any language would not come as a surprise to me.
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But for this one I get a translation to English as:
“Beef labeling law monitoring delegation”
doesn’t exactly flow off the tongue
Beef labeling is considered sensual in some cultures. Alabama, for example.
By German liquor manufacturer EFAG…Hmm…E…Fag…
No ficking way! There goes 30 of my domains!
Completlty off topic but that is an intresting Bot comment from reeha@”super sale”
Seems to grab the domain name and the topic name and blends into something that looks human at first glance.
MOTHER is also a TM the Noun that adjective modifies starts with F
.MOM is the preferred Top Level Domain
Really? So what can they do with this trademark now?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhh7Iu76yUA
The Python clearly used this term in commerce first 😉
Unbelievable! How could a word “F” can be trademarked!
Theo –
Scrape box, blackhaters dont leave home without it. Well in fact they dont leave their bedrooms in their parents house much at all, but you know what I am saying.
The only German word I know is the word for “BRA” ….. “Stopemfromfloppin”.