Subway trademarks the word "Footlong" : Othor Games

» Sat May 28, 2011 7:43 am

http://www.investingcontrarian.com/financial-news-network/subway-trying-to-trademark-footlong-sending-cease-and-desist-letters/
http://consumerist.com/2010/05/subways-lawyers-tell-rest-of-world-to-stop-selling-footlong-sandwiches.html

The world has officially gone mad as the Subway restorants have trademarked the worrd "Footlong" when it is used in combination with a sandwich. :brokencomputer:

Wow, I cant wait untill Gap trademarks "T-shirt" and I have to start buying "shirts with short sleaves that have a T-shaped form". :facepalm:

So, do you think a company should be able to trademark such common words?

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:26 am

Uh-oh. that's bad news for me....

» Sat May 28, 2011 2:27 am

The future of America... :facepalm:

» Fri May 27, 2011 8:12 pm

Raithen... Really? Well this is BGSF you're forgiven.

» Sat May 28, 2011 9:03 am

Uh-oh. that's bad news for me....

You're a... sandwich?

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:04 am

Oh, soon enough someone'll tradmark 'the'

» Sat May 28, 2011 6:39 am

Oh, soon enough someone'll tradmark 'the'

To late, I've already done it, you owe me 25 cents each time you use it.

» Fri May 27, 2011 6:32 pm

Reading this makes me want a Subway teriyaki chicken sub. But it's closed.

» Sat May 28, 2011 7:46 am

Oh, soon enough someone'll tradmark 'the'

Sooner or later EVERY word will be trademarked.

» Fri May 27, 2011 5:46 pm

Uh-oh. that's bad news for me....

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» Sat May 28, 2011 8:14 am

Uh-oh. that's bad news for me....

Bravo good sir. Bravo.

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:35 pm

Uh-oh. that's bad news for me....

Quick! trademark 12"

» Sat May 28, 2011 3:53 am

/thread

It's to early for that, we've still got 10 pages and this is BGSF come on guys make innuendo about sammiches!

» Sat May 28, 2011 4:51 am

So can I say "as long as a foot"? Does that count?

I want a sandwich which has a length equal to one foot please.

» Sat May 28, 2011 7:13 am

Uh-oh. that's bad news for me....

Hot dogs are fine. They are after Subs and Sandwiches.

» Sat May 28, 2011 8:23 am

I would trademark the name "America". I think I would rake in the dollars of people renting the name from me.

Reading this makes me want a Subway teriyaki chicken sub. But it's closed.

We're lucky enough to have an all night drive-thru Subway a couple blocks over, but the one guy on duty late at night falls asleep a lot of times, or doesn't see you pull up. So we just honk until he gets on the mic.

» Fri May 27, 2011 9:24 pm

So can I say "as long as a foot"? Does that count?

I want a sandwich which has a length equal to one foot please.

Nope you must say : I want a sandwich which has a length equal to 30.48 centimeters please.

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:00 am

I don't see a problem with Subway doing this. Corporations can do anything they want.

» Sat May 28, 2011 3:36 am

Nope you must say : I want a sandwich which has a length equal to 30.48 centimeters please.

Actually I was reviewing the code comments on a building I was working on and we said 4" max on the spacing of the stairwell spindles. They made a comment that it had to be less than 4", even though 4" max is what everyones puts. So I put down that the max spacing could be 3 and 63/64ths

» Sat May 28, 2011 7:14 am

I'm fairly sure you can't trademark a word like that. Won't hold up in court.

» Sat May 28, 2011 4:59 am

Bravo good sir. Bravo.

Guys, I'm just going to point this out right here. The trademark is on the word footlong when involving sandwiches. This means either raithen is a sandwich or he's got some of the strangest fetishes known to man.

» Fri May 27, 2011 6:13 pm

Nope you must say : I want a sandwich which has a length equal to 30.48 centimeters please.

Ah, that's the answer!

In order to avoid trademark infringement, the country will convert to the metric system!

Wait a minute, Subway isn't part of a conspiracy to put America onto the metric system, is it????

» Fri May 27, 2011 9:22 pm

Guys, I'm just going to point this out right here. The trademark is on the word footlong when involving sandwiches. This means either raithen is a sandwich or he's got some of the strangest fetishes known to man.

Or perhaps he's a sandwich that has a fetish for footlongs

» Fri May 27, 2011 7:09 pm

Nope you must say : I want a sandwich which has a length equal to 30.48 centimeters please.

I'd like a vege thirtylong, extra olives.

EDIT: Could even call it a 300long (since 1cm=10mm).

» Sat May 28, 2011 9:57 am

Or perhaps he's a sandwich that has a fetish for footlongs

Or maybe hes referring to his [censored].

EDIT:
The proper word for male gentials is censored WTF