Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 19/10/04, Caveman, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>Planning to do some birthday cards ? Make sure you don't write "Happy >>Birthday" on them: >> >>http://en.ce.cn/Industries/Consumen-Industries/200410/17/ >>t20041017_2008337.shtml > >What a load of festering old bollocks.
Yes, but the poor Chinese won't find out until they try to enforce their trademark with regards to someone who puts "Happy Birthday" on a card or something. You can certainly Trademark "Happy Birthday" brand radial tires or whatever (which is presumably what they've been duped into doing - at great expense, no doubt) and prevent anyone from using "Happy Birthday" as a brand name for a similar product, but that's quite a different thing from owning exclusive rights to use of the phrase. They're going to leave court *very* unhappy with the lawyers who talked them into this... -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
