'Entrepreneur' a trademarked word, court rules
The word "entrepreneur" has been trademarked since 1978, and a recent court decision upholds Entrepreneur Media's ownership of the trademark. Scott Smith, who named his company EntrepreneurPR, had to change the name. He makes this interesting comment:
"It's like being sued for using the word 'golf.' There's 'Golf Magazine,' 'Golf Illustrated,' " Smith said. "Most publishers are not that insane. But these people have this thought that they made the word 'entrepreneur' what it is today."
Do you agree? All I have to say is, if Minority Business Entrepreneur magazine and Female Entrepreneur magazine are affected by this decision, I'm going to be angry.
Link via Paul Cox. Cross-posted at Kairosnews.
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dur-- what?? They say they trademarked the WORD entrepeneur? I'm with Mr. Smith on that one. How can one trademark a word? My little Webster's shows the etymology from 19th century French. How does someone get off in 1978 claiming all rights to a word?
This opens up an entirely new interesting line of thought, though. Just think of what life could be like if we all went around trademarking words. I'll have to ponder which one I want.
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