Citigroup Is Suing AT&T For Using the Word 'Thanks'
http://gizmodo.com/citigroup-is-suing-at-t-for-using-the-word-thanks-1781753942
Earlier this month AT&T announced a new rewards program called
Thanks AT&T which provides customers things like 2-for-1 movie
tickets. This didn't go over well with Citi's lawyers since
Citi has its own rewards program called ThankYou Citi.
Citigroup even owns thankyou.com if you'd like to feel a
little more sick to your stomach. As further evidence that
our intellectual property laws our one giant joke, not only
did the Trademark Office give Citi an exclusive commercial
right to use one of the most common phrases in the English
language for credit cards, now Citi thinks that it can go
after another company for using the phrase in a similar way.
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