I am not a lawyer (IANAL), not yet anyways - but from my somewhat informed
view this could easily go either way in a US court, it really depends on
what they do with it. Personally, I think it could easily be called a
"generic" term, something that can't be covered by a trademark. Politically
[here's a fascinating report from Brett Neilson on Agamben's latest
book, yet to be translated. Among other things, the report nicely
illuminates the Schmittian problematic of a 'state of exception' via
the Schmitt-Benjamin dialogue, pointing out why such a
juridico-political condition remains
Slowly but unstoppably, the Internet is freezing over. Sites that used to
be changing daily with fresh content produced by professional writers
broadcast the same old news anno mid 2000 over and over, with their owners
only sometimes posting a little article written in their free time. It is
unavo