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kleinbl00  ·  3572 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 11, 2015

The USPTO has an astonishingly boring video to answer your questions. I sat through it. Of course, it has fuckall to say about common law trademark.





b_b  ·  3572 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What constitutes a "geographical market", vis-a-vis CLT? For those purposes is "Greater Seattle area" the market of interest? I suppose with a birth center one could make an argument that anywhere more than a 30 minute drive probably isn't an overlapping market. Not sure it's defensible, but then, CLTs aren't super defensible to begin with, so far as I can tell.

Edit: I think the video has fuckall to say about CLT, because it's from the USPTO, and they don't want to encourage anyone to go that route, as it isn't a great option for businesses or attorneys.

kleinbl00  ·  3572 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We haven't gotten that far. We asked our legal team and they said "we can look into it, but it doesn't look good."

ESRI only really cares about a 15 minute drive.

They're within that 15 minute drive.

So is most of Seattle.

ecib  ·  3572 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Cool, thanks. I'll...sit though it. I don't think it could be more boring than a lot of what I have to read for work. RFPs are notoriously dry.

Edit: 10 seconds in, the way that guy hops onto the stage I'm feeling like this is gonna be downright fun.

kleinbl00  ·  3572 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Attitude is everything when watching government presentations.

ecib  ·  3572 days ago  ·  link  ·  

He couldn't quite keep the energy up...