Sarah Palin (and her daugher Bristol) file trademark applications to protect their names

[thewayne]

They are trying to trademark their names as "motivational lecturers", but their lawyer blew the initial application and it was refused because when you apply to trademark your name, YOU HAVE TO SIGN THE TRADEMARK APPLICATION. You'd think a lawyer would know that. Another reason for denying it: "The office also said Palin's application failed to show that her name had been used in commerce and could also be rejected on those grounds."

I think we'd better come up with a new way to refer to Sarah, such as SWAG: She Who Abandoned her Governorship, or perhaps The Governor Formerly Known as Palin. Though to paraphrase a comment on Slashdot, I think I'll use That Idiot From Alaska, or TIFA, if she starts trying to swat bloggers for writing unflattering things about her (not that I'm terribly concerned about it.)

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-palin-trademark,0,5454977.story

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/04/us-palin-trademark-idUSTRE7135WI20110204?pageNumber=1

http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/02/05/0013253/Sarah-Palin-Seeks-To-Trademark-Her-Name

Comments

[silveradept]

Anything to make a few more million bucks, I guess.